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

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792319060
• ISBN13: 9780792319061
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"