Angelika Wittek

Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs (eBook, PDF)

A case study of German child language

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110907988
• Artikelnr.: 44419064

Autorenporträt

Angelika Wittek is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.