The Development of Grammar

1. Introduction (by Rinke, Esther); 2. Part I. (2)L1 versus L2 versus child L2: Similarities and differences; 3. 'Acquisition' in grammatical development: What does word order tell us? (by Carroll, Susanne Elizabeth); 4. Tense and Aspect in early French development in aL2, 2L1 and cL2 learners (by Schlyter, Suzanne); 5. Subject clitics in child L2 acquisition of French (by Preissler, Anne-Kathrin); 6. Placement of infinitives in successive child language acquisition (by Sopata, Aldona); 7. Part II. The acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories; 8. The developmental pathway of nominal functional categories in early child Mandarin: Language specific features and other driving factors (by Chang-Smith, Meiyun); 9. The emergence of CP in child Basque: Evidence for a fine-structured CP? (by Kintana, Noemi); 10. Some directions for the systematic investigation of the acquisition of Cypriot Greek: A new perspective on production abilities from object clitic placement (by Grohmann, Kleanthes K.); 11. Strict Interfaces and three kinds of Multiple Grammar (by Roeper, Thomas); 12. Part III. Autonomous development vs. crosslinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition; 13. Delay and acceleration in bilingual first language acquisition: The same or different? (by Patuto, Marisa); 14. Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children (by Lleo, Conxita); 15. Perception of German vowels by bilingual Portuguese-German returnees: A case of phonological attrition? (by Flores, Cristina); 16. Part IV. Language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change; 17. Acquisition in the context of language change: The case of Brazilian Portuguese null subjects (by Kato, Mary Aizawa); 18. On the diachronic reanalysis of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese: Triggers and consequences (by Nunes, Jairo); 19. On the decrease in subject-verb inversion in French declaratives (by Kaiser, Georg); 20. On the relation between acceptability and frequency (by Adli, Aria); 21. Index