E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm
Reihe: ISSN
Wittek Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs
Nachdruck 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-090798-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
A case study of German child language
E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-090798-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
