Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.
Jennifer R. Austin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer R. Austin is involved.
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Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh
Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp.
Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein
This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp.
2020 Chapter 2. Differential Object Marking in the speech of children learning Basque and Spanish The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, Mardale, Alexandru and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 51–75 | Chapter
Basque speakers use dative case and agreement with animate, specific direct objects, a pattern that has been argued to be an instance of contact-induced Differential Object Marking (DOM) stemming from contact with the leísta dialect of Spanish spoken in the Basque Autonomous Community. This… read more
2019 Representation and processing in bilingual morphology Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology, Austin, Jennifer R. (ed.), pp. 1–5 | Editorial
2017 Chapter 10. Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario, Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds.), pp. 209–227 | Chapter
This paper investigates the development of English and Spanish subject production in 8 heritage bilingual children (age range: 4;1–5;3; mean age: 4;7). Oral production of overt and null subjects was assessed using a picture-based story re-telling task and a description task. Subjects were coded… read more
2017 The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:2, pp. 230–264 | Article
Although monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos. Given… read more
2013 Ergativity in child Basque The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 35–70 | Article
This chapter analyzes the development of ergativity in 20 bilingual and 11 monolingual children learning Basque by comparing their production of ergative case and agreement to their use of absolutive and dative case and verbal inflection. The children produced ergative verbal inflection earlier… read more
2004 Current issues in the syntax and semantics of adverbials Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 1–44 | Article
1998 Interactions between pragmatic and syntactic knowledge in the first language acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronominals Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996, Lema, José and Esthela Treviño (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Article