The Acquisition of Verb Placement: Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9780792319061 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 464 str.

J. Meisel; Jurgen M. Meisel

Opis

The twelve contributions in this volume all focus on the question of whether developing grammars contain, at each stage of language acquisition, the full range of functional categories such as INFL, AGR, or COMP. The evidence examined is the placement of verbs, especially in verb-second constructions. Since the position of verbal elements depends on the finiteness distinction (the presence of agreement and tense markings), the development of these phenomena is studied as well.

Spis treści

Introduction: Functional Categories and Verb Placement in Language Development; J.M. Meisel. The Acquisition of the Morphosyntax of Finite Verbs in English; A. Radford. Functional Categories and Early Swedish; C. Platzack. Accessing Functional Categories in Sesotho: Interactions at the Morpho-Syntax Interface; K. Demuth. Finiteness and Verb Placement in Early Child Grammars: Evidence from Simultaneous Acquisition of French and German in Bilinguals; J.M. Meisel, N. Muller. Language Acquisition and Competing Linguistic Representations: the Child as Arbiter; I. Gawlitzek-Maiwald, R. Tracey, A. Fritzenschaft. The Acquisition of Agreement Morphology and its Syntactic Consequences: New Evidence on German Child Language from the Simone-Corpus; H. Clahsen, M. Penke. Verb Movement, Agreement, and Tense in L2 Acquisition; L. Eubank. The Ban on Parameter Resetting, Default Mechanisms, and the Acquisition of V2 in Bernese Swiss German; Z. Penner. Routes to Verb Placement in Early German and French: The Independence of Finiteness and Agreement; M. Verrips, J. Weissenborn. From the Initial State to V2: Acquisition Principles in Action; T. Roeper. The Genesis of Clausal Structure; N. Hyams. Categories of First Syntax, Be, Be+ing, and Nothingness; V. Valian. On the Acquisition of Functional Categories: A General Commentary; J. De Villiers. Index.