Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs

By Angelika Wittek

Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110173042
• ISBN13: 9783110173048
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary