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The acquisition of ergativity /

Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bavin, Edith Laura (Editor ), Stoll, Sabine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Trends in language acquisition research ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Acquisition of Ergativity; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; The acquisition of ergativity; Introduction ; Acquiring ergativity: Some challenges ; Semantic bootstrapping hypothesis ; Universal vs. language specific ; When ergative alignment applies: Split systems ; Identifying the argument structure of verbs ; The social context of acquisition ; Overview of the volume ; Final comment ; References ; Ergativity ; Introduction ; Alignment types ; Semantic alignment ; Symmetric alignment ; Alignment splits ; Syntactic alignment biases ; Some diachronic issues.
  • Conclusions References ; Ergativity in child Basque; Introduction ; Ergativity in Basque ; Basque case marking ; Basque verbal morphology ; Basque word order ; The development of case and agreement in child Basque ; Factors which influence morphological development ; Phonological difficulty ; Morphological complexity ; Input frequency ; Research questions ; Methods ; Participants ; Procedures ; Data analyses ; Results ; Verbal agreement errors ; Case errors ; Discussion and conclusions ; Appendix ; References ; The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut; Introduction ; Structure of Inuktitut.
  • Study 1: Ergativity in child spontaneous speech Participants ; Data collection and preparation ; Data coding ; Results and discussion ; Alternatives options for expressing bivalent propositions ; Study 2: Ergativity in caregiver spontaneous speech ; Participants ; Data collection, preparation, and coding ; Results and discussion ; Study 3: Ergativity in elicited narratives ; Participants ; Data collection ; Data coding ; Results and discussion ; Comparison across three data types ; Study 4: Ergativity in West Greenlandic child spontaneous speech ; General discussion ; References.
  • Appendix 1: Elicited Narrative from Grade 3 Participant (SJ) The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri; Introduction ; Ergative morphology ; The cross-referencing system ; Possible factors influencing the acquisition of ergative morphology ; The data ; Data set 1: Spontaneous speech ; Data analysis ; Results ; Development over 13-14 months ; Adult input ; Case allomorphs ; Data set 2: Elicited narratives ; Book one ; Book two ; Summary and conclusions ; References ; The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) ; Introduction.
  • Some typological features of Trans New Guinea languages Kaluli ; Introduction to the language ; Ergativity in Kaluli ; Ergative marking on nouns, proper names, and demonstratives ; Ergative marking on personal pronouns ; Acquisition of Kaluli ergative marking ; Acquisition of the ergative marker -ya: ; Acquisition of ergative personal pronouns ; Cues for appropriate use of ergative marking ; The Kaluli interactional setting ; Ku Waru ; Introduction to the language ; Ergativity in Ku Waru ; Acquisition of Ku Waru ergative marking ; The role of adult input ; Baby ergative form ; Overextensions.