: Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gülzow
: Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gülzow
: The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages
: Springer-Verlag
: 9781402043352
: 1
: CHF 139.30
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 351
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This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of papers brings to researchers and in particular psycholinguists empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages from Hebrew, through English to Estonian. The authors interpret their findings with a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach.
TABLE OF CONTENTS6
INTRODUCTION8
Part 1 Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew19
ACQUISITION OF VERB ARGUMENT STRUCTURE FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE20
SUBJECT USE AND THE ACQUISITION OF VERBAL AGREEMENT IN HEBREW50
Part 2 Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics73
STRATEGIES IN THE L1-ACQUISITION OF PREDICATION: THE COPULA CONSTRUCTION IN GERMAN AND CROATIAN74
WHY NOT ALL VERBS ARE LEARNED EQUALLY108
Part 3 Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping126
DYNAMIC EVENT WORDS, MOTION EVENTS AND THE TRANSITION TO VERB MEANINGS127
FINITENESS IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS LEARNING DUTCH173
Part 4 Language-specific variation and the role of frequency199
THE ACQUISITION OF VOICE MORPHOLOGY IN JAKARTA INDONESIAN200
ANALYTICAL AND SYNTHETIC VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH CHILD LANGUAGE227
Part 5 Language-specific and learner-specific peculiarities in the development of verbs and their grammar258
THE ACQUISITION OF VERBAL INFLECTION IN ESTONIAN259
GRAMMATICAL ROLE OF FRENCH FIRST VERBS292
SPEAKER AND HEARER REFERENCE IN RUSSIAN SPEAKING CHILDREN314
INDEX340