Definiteness Effects: Bilingual, Typological and Diachronic Variation

Tanja Kupisch is Full Professor in Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, and Associated Professor at the Arctic University of Norway. She has worked as a researcher and teacher at the universities of Hamburg, Calgary, McGill and Lund, focusing on various aspects of language acquisition. Her research areas include child bilingualism, adult L2 acquisition, bilectal language acquisition, L3 acquisition, language attrition, and language dominance, and her work is concerned with various aspects of nominal syntax and pronunciation. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, International Journal of Bilingualism, Linguistic Approaches of Bilingualism, and Second Language Research.

Esther Rinke is a Full Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt. Her research covers comparative Romance linguistics, diachronic syntax, heritage bilingualism, and the analysis of linguistic variation. She has published work on theories of diachronic change, the historical development of the nominal domain in Portuguese, word order variation and change in French and Portuguese, the synchrony and diachrony of relative clauses across Romance languages, and the analysis of syntactic variation of clitic doubling in Spanish. Rinke has also worked extensively on the relation of language change and language acquisition, and on the linguistic competence of heritage bilinguals in Germany.