Generative linguistics and acquisition : studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams /
This paper proposes a new theory of why null-subjects of finite verbs are produced by young children developing a non-null-subject language. We first show that one of the extant theories, Topic-Drop, isn't supported. Modifying ideas proposed in Rizzi (2006), we assume that finite null-subjects...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Series: | Language acquisition & language disorders.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English / Misha Becker & Jeannette Schaeffer
- Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children's passive acquisition / Tetsuya Sano
- Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese? Evidence from spontaneous production data / Ana Lúcia Santos, Jason Rothman, Acrisio Pires & Inês Duarte
- The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English / Carson Schütze
- The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI / John Grinstead, Dan McCurley, Teresa Pratt, Patrick Obregon & Blanca Flores
- The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children / Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir
- Pronouns vs. definite descriptions / Kyle Johnson
- An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds / Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Xiao He & Natalie Jonckheere
- The syntactic domain of context / Hagit Borer
- There-insertion: how Internal Merge guides the acquisition path / Tom Roeper
- Metalinguistic skills of children / Helen Smith Cairns
- Children's grammatical conservatism: new evidence / Koji Sugisaki & William Snyder
- Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies
- A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children: information-structure meets phasal computation / Ken Wexler.
