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Maintaining Language and Developing Multilingualism

• Katrin Schmitz

  Katrin Schmitz is a Junior Professor in Romance Linguistics (French, Italian, Spanish) at the University of Wuppertal. Her main research interests are multilingualism (both in children and adults), language acquisition (L1, 2L1, L2), syntax, lexical semantics, morphology and sociolinguistics. Her main current research projects include the study of subjects and objects in Italian and Spanish heritage speakers in Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and several books. Her research has appeared in different international, refereed journals such as Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, First Language and Lingua.

  and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

  Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes is a Profesor Contratado Doctor in Spanish at the University of Balearic Islands. His main research interests are in the interdisciplinary fields of Spanish applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and bilingualism. His main current research projects include the study of spatial prepositions, object marking, word order and tense/aspect by a variety of learners, projects funded by the British Academy (UK), the Art and Humanities Research Council (UK), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and more recently by the Ministry of Economy and Enterprise (Spain). He has authored and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters and books by different publishers (e.g., de Gruyter and John Benjamins amongst others). His research has appeared in different international, refereed journals such as Language Learning, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cognition, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Applied Psycholinguistics and First Language.