On the Acquisition of French Argument Structure and SE-Cliticization
Isabelle Barrière
Broschiertes Buch

On the Acquisition of French Argument Structure and SE-Cliticization

Explaining the L1 Acquisition of Reflexive, Reciprocal, Anticausative and Middle-Passive Constructions across Languages

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This study focuses on the ambiguous French clitic SE that appears with animate subjects in Reflexive and Reciprocal constructions and with inanimate subjects in Anticausative and Middle Passive constructions. On the basis of a new classification of the cross-linguistic overgeneralization of Argument Structure Alternations, the analysis of SE as an argument absorber and a modified version of the Maturation Hypothesis, hypotheses are formulated with respect to the order of acquisition of different SE-constructions, the manifestations of the overgeneralizations produced by children and the order ...