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Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar.

This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoekstra, Teun
Otros Autores: Schwartz, Bonnie D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : on the initial stages of language acquisition / Teun Hoekstra & Bonnie Schwartz
  • VP, null arguments, and COMP projections / Nina Hyams
  • Crosslinguistic evidence for functional projections in early child grammar / Vivian Deprez & Amy Pierce
  • The seeds of structure : a syntactic analysis of the acquisition of case marking / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Anne Vainikka
  • From adjunct to head / Teun Hoekstra & Peter Jordens
  • Early null subjects and root null subjects / Luigi Rizzi
  • Asking questions without CPs? : on the acquisition of root wh-questions in Bernese Swiss German and Standard German / Zvi Penner
  • Successful cyclic movement / Rosalind Thornton & Stephen Crain
  • Early acquisition of scrambling in Japanese / Yukio Otsu
  • Direct access to X'-theory : evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German / Anne Vainikka & Martha Young-Scholten
  • Word order and nominative case in non-native language acquisition : a longitudinal study of (L1 Turkish) German interlanguage / Bonnie D. Schwartz & Rex A. Sprouse
  • Optionality and the initial state in L2 development / Lynn Eubank.