The Acquisition of Anaphora in Child Mandarin: Reflexive Binding and Argument Dropping

ISBN-13: 9781138241206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 248 str.

Ruya Li

Opis

The book will be of great interest to linguists, psycholinguists, sinologists, and scholars who work on Chinese as a second language. This book will bridge a gap in both child language acquisition and the syntactic analysis of Chinese reflexive ziji. The first experimental study on Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of long-distance bound reflexives and its blocking effect

Spis treści

About the Book

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Chapter One. Theories of Reflexive Binding and Pro-Drop

Chapter Two. Acquisition Studies of Reflexive Binding and Argument Dropping

Chapter Three. Experimental Studies of Reflexive Interpretation 

Chapter Four. An Experimental Study of Null Arguments 

Chapter Five. Feature Valuation and Maturation of Grammar 

Conclusion

Bibliography

Author Index

Language Index

Subject Index

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

O autorze

Ruya Li is Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics, Tianjin Normal University