none 10.1075/lald.7.07kai John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67870641 1420349 1420287 202507022329000054 10.1075 2025-07-02T17:28:44Z 2014-03-24T04:38:57Z 27 0925-0123 10.1075/lald https://benjamins.com/ catalog/lald Jürgen M. Meisel University of Hamburg https://ror.org/00g30e956 French and German grammatical development The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific grammatical phenomena; explanations are given within the framework of the Principle and Parameter approach. The study is primarily concerned with the acquisition of so-called 'functional categories' and the consequences of their acquisition for the development of grammar. Specific points dealt with in these papers include: gender, number and case and their internal structure (DP vs NP); inflection and its consequences for agreement marking; and word order phenomena (subject-raising constructions (incl. passives), word order in subordinate clauses). The basic hypothesis underlying this study is that early child grammars consist only of lexical categories and that functional categories are implemented later in the child's grammar. How this happens exactly is the central issue explored in this book. 7 9 6 1994 5 2 2011 9789027224705 9781556192425 9789027224712 9781556192432 9789027284976 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/lald.7 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027284976 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/lald.7/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027284976.pdf Georg Kaiser The Acquisition of Clitic Pronouns in French 9 6 1994 5 2 2011 131 160 10.1075/lald.7.07kai https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.7.07kai https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/lald.7.07kai/html