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Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition
Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
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Main description:Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book focuses on the acquisition of syntax and syntactic theory, specifically on Chomskyan Generative Grammar.Table of contents:- Tables and Figures- Abbreviations- Contributors- Introduction- The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English- Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition...
Main description:
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book focuses on the acquisition of syntax and syntactic theory, specifically on Chomskyan Generative Grammar.
Table of contents:
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English
- Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition
- The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar
- Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development
- Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy
- Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque
- Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives
- Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures
- On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French
- Clitics in L2 French
- The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax
- The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition
- How, Hang on a Minute
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book focuses on the acquisition of syntax and syntactic theory, specifically on Chomskyan Generative Grammar.
Table of contents:
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English
- Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition
- The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar
- Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development
- Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy
- Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque
- Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives
- Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures
- On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French
- Clitics in L2 French
- The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax
- The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition
- How, Hang on a Minute
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects