Becker / Grinstead / Rothman Generative Linguistics and Acquisition

Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-7226-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 54, 364 Seiten

Reihe: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the volume illustrate ways in which theoretically informed linguistic research can explain language behavior in terms that are motivated on independent grounds and point towards new research opportunities to test theoretical claims about the adult model of grammar. The contributions of this volume are inspired by or related to the scholarship of Nina Hyams, whose dedication to rigorous, theoretically-informed research on language is well represented here.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becker, Misha

Grinstead, John

Rothman, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I. Argument structure and clause-internal syntax in children
Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English
Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children’s passive acquisition*
Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese?: Evidence from spontaneous production data
The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English
The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI
Part II. The DP domain
The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children*
Pronouns vs. definite descriptions*
An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds*
The syntactic domain of content*
Part III. Learning theory
There-insertion: How Internal Merge guides the acquisition path
Metalinguistic skills of children
Children’s Grammatical Conservatism: New evidence*
Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies
A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children: Information-structure meets phasal computation*
Index