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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454458903321

Autore

Allen Shanley

Titolo

Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996

ISBN

1-282-16335-3

9786612163357

90-272-9915-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

Disciplina

497/.1

Soggetti

Dialect

Inuktitut language - Acquisition

Inuktitut language - Syntax

Native American & Hyperborean Languages

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

ASPECTS OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE ACQUISITION IN INUKTITUT; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1995 Book Award; Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Background and Overview; Chapter 2. Methodology; Chapter 3. Acquisition of passives; Chapter 4. Acquisition of causatives; Chapter 5. Acquisition of noun incorporation; Chapter 6. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. Map indicating location of Quaqtaq; Appendix B. List of (meta)transcription notations; Appendix C. List of codes for verbal utterances; Appendix D. Sample of fully coded transcript

Index of LanguagesIndex of Authors; Index of Subjects; The Series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced forms of passive structures are



shown to be used productively by Inuktitut-speaking children at an early age relative to English-speaking children, but consistent in age with speakers of non-Indo-European languages reported on in the literature; potential explanations of this difference include freque