- Adjunct Professor
1980 - present: Professor of Linguistics, Dept. Romance Languages, University of Hamburg.
1973-1980: Associate Professor, University of Wuppertal.1971-1972: post-doctoral fellow, UC San Diego, Linguistics.
1973: post-doctoral fellow, U Massachusetts, Amherst, Linguistics. 1970-1971 Assistant Professor, U Frankfurt.University Education: Tübingen, Madrid, Frankfurt/Main.
Visiting professor at various universities and institutes in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, USA & Yugoslavia.
Supervising: 21 successfully completed doctoral theses. M.A. theses. External member on Ph.D. committees: Various universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Sweden, USA.
Research grants: since 1979. Currently: * Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition of Bilingualism (1999-2008), German Science Foundation. * Multilingualism as Cause and Effect of Language Change: Historical Syntax of Romance Languages (1999-2008), German Science Foundation.
I am serving as editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press).
Galina Fix, Erwerbsmechanismen in der Zweitsprache: Die sprachliche Entwicklung beim gesteuerten Erwerb des Franzosischen, U Hamburg.
24 successfully completed doctoral theses.
External member on Ph.D. committees at various universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Sweden, USA.
2009-present: Professor Emeritus, Department of Romance Languages, U Hamburg
2006-2008: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of French, Italian & Spanish, U Calgary
1999-2007: (Co-)Chair, Research Center on Multilingualism, U of Hamburg
1996: Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
1980-2009: Professor of Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages, U Hamburg
1973-1980: Associate Professor, U Wuppertal
1973: Post-doctoral fellow, Linguistics, U Massachusetts, Amherst
1971-1972: Post-doctoral fellow, Linguistics, UC San Diego
1970-1971: Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages, U Frankfurt
Visiting professor at various universities in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, USA & Yugoslavia.
University Education: Tübingen, Madrid, Frankfurt/Main.
Editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press).
Member of the editorial boards of eight journals and two book series.
Books
1. Das Präpositionalobjekt im Spanischen. Frankfurt/Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität 1970.
2. Einführung in die transformationelle Syntax. I. Grundlagen. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1973.
3. Einführung in die transformationelle Syntax. II. Anwendung auf das Französische. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1973.
4. Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Der Spracherwerb ausländischer Arbeiter. (Harald Clahsen, Jürgen M. Meisel and Manfred Pienemann)Tübingen: Verlag Gunter Narr 1983.
5. First and Second Language Acquisition: Parallels and Differences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011.
6. Language Acquisition and Change: A Morphosyntactic Perspective. (Jürgen M. Meisel, Martin Elsig & Esther Rinke) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (in progress).
Books Edited
1. Langues en contact - Pidgins - Creoles - Languages in Contact. Tübingen: Gunter Narr 1977.
2. Linear Order and Generative Theory. (Jürgen M. Meisel & Martin D. Pam) Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1979.
3. Adquisición del lenguaje - Aquisição da linguagem. Frankfurt/M: Verlag Klaus-Dieter Vervuert 1986.
4. Two First Languages - Early Grammatical Development in Bilingual Children. Dordrecht: Foris 1990.
5. The Acquisition of Verb Placement: Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition. Dordrecht: Kluwer 1992.
6. Bilingual First Language Acquisition – French and German Grammatical Development. Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1994.
7. La adquisición del vasco y del castellano en niños bilingües. Madrid & Frankfurt/M: Vervuert Verlag, 1994.
Chapters in books (since 2006)
Meisel, Jürgen M. (to appear). Sensitive phases in successive language acquisition: The Critical Period Hypothesis revisited. In Cedric Boeckx & Kleanthes Grohmann (eds.), Handbook of Biolinguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (to appear). The ZISA Project. In Peter Robinson (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition, New York, NY: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (to appear). Development in Second Language Acquisition. In Peter Robinson (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition, New York, NY: Taylor & Francis/ Routledge.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2010). Age of Onset in Successive Acquisition of Bilingualism: Effects on Grammatical Development. In M. Kail & M. Hickman (eds.), Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 225-247. (Revised version of the 2008 paper in French).
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2009). Universal and Particular in First Language Acquisition: Incremental Development of Functional Categories. In V. Egerland & J. Granfeldt (eds.), Mélanges plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l’occasion de son 65ième anniversaire, Lund: Språk- och Literaturcentrum, 281-298.
Stöber, Claudia, & Meisel, Jürgen M. (2008). Omissão e realização de objectos na aquisição simultânea do alemão e do português do Brasil. In Cristina Flores (ed.), Temas em Bilinguismo, Braga: Universidade do Minho, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, 179-206. [Omission and Realization of Objects in Simultaneous Acquisition of German and Brazilian Portuguese]
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2008). Âge du début de l’acquisition successive du bilinguisme. Effets sur le développement grammatical. In M. Kail, M. Fayol & M. Hickman (eds.), Apprentissage des langues premières et secondes, Paris: Editions du CNRS, 245-272.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2008). Child Second Language Acquisition or Successive First Language Acquisition? In B. Haznedar & E. Gavruseva (eds.), Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A Generative Perspective, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 55-80.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2007). Mehrsprachigkeit in der frühen Kindheit: Zur Rolle des Alters bei Erwerbsbeginn. In T. Anstatt (ed.), Mehrsprachigkeit bei Kindern und Erwachsenen: Erwerb, Formen, Förderung, Tübingen: Attempto, 93-113. [Multilingualism in Early Childhood: The Role of Age at Onset of Acquisition.]
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2007). On Autonomous Syntactic Development in Multiple First Language Acquisition. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake & I.–H. Woo (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 26-45.
Kintana, Noemí, & Meisel, Jürgen M. (2006). The Development of WH-Constructions in Basque-Spanish Bilingual First Language Acquisition. In B. Fernández & I., Laka (eds.), Andolin gogoan. Essays in Honour of Professor Eguzkitza, Bilbao: Servcio Editorial de la UPV-EHU, 465-481.
Articles in refered journals (since 2007)
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2012). Remarks on the Acquisition of Basque-Spanish Bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingualism 16.
Meisel, Jürgen M., Elsig, Martin & Bonnesen, Matthias. (2011). Delayed Acquisition of Grammar in First Language Development: Subject-Verb Inversion and Subject Clitics in French Interrogatives. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1 (4), 347-390.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2011). Parametric Variation in Acquisition and Diachronic Change: A Response to the Commentaries. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14 (2), 165-172.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2011). Bilingual Language Acquisition and Theories of Diachronic Change: Bilingualism as Cause and Effect of Grammatical Change. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14 (2), 121-145.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2010). Review of “Pieter Muysken, Functional categories. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 117). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 297 pp.” Language 86(4), 975-978.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2009). Revisiting Child Second Language Acquisition: Rejoinder to Commentaries. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 28 (1), 107-120
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2009). Second Language Acquisition in Early Childhood. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 28 (1), 5-34.
Saur, D., Baumgärtner, A., Möhring, A., Büchel, C., Bonnesen, M., Rose, M., Musso, M. & Meisel, J. M. (2009). Word Order Processing in the Bilingual Brain. Neuropsychologia 47, 158-168.
Isel, F., Baumgärtner, A., Thrän, J., Meisel, J. M., & Büchel, C. (2009). Neural Circuitry of the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Effect of Age of Second Language Acquisition. Brain and Cognition (2009).
Miertsch, Barbara, Meisel, Jürgen M., & Isel, Frédéric. (2009). Non-treated Languages in Aphasia-Therapy of Polyglots Benefit from Improvement in the Treated Language. Journal of Neurolinguistics 22 (2), 135-150.
Meisel, Jürgen M. (2007). The Weaker Language in Early Child Bilingualism: Acquiring a First Language as a Second Language? Applied Psycholinguistics 28 (3), 495-514.