The Acquisition of Finiteness
Author(s): Elma Blom (Author)
- Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
- Publication Date: January 1, 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 162 pages
- ISBN-10: 311173868X
- ISBN-13: 9783111738680
Book Description
The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. It contains a critical empirical assessment of the various hypotheses, lists the implications for linguistic theory and provides alternative analyses. Issues covered are: (i) the semantics of children s root infinitives (tense, modality and aspect), (ii) the relation between lexical, morphological and syntactic development in the domain of finiteness, (iii) the role of the input, and (iv) the interference of cognitive development. Typological focus is on Germanic languages."
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The Acquisition of Finiteness
Author(s): Blom (Author), Elma (Author)
- Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
- Publication Date: October 20, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 162 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110190834
- ISBN-13: 9783110190830
Book Description
The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. It contains a critical empirical assessment of the various hypotheses, lists the implications for linguistic theory and provides alternative analyses. Issues covered are: (i) the semantics of childrens root infinitives (tense, modality and aspect), (ii) the relation between lexical, morphological and syntactic development in the domain of finiteness, (iii) the role of the input, and (iv) the interference of cognitive development. Typological focus is on Germanic languages.
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Elma Blom, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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