Pronouns and clitics in early language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by María Pilar Larrañaga, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464686403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-62769-8; 3-11-023881-0; 9786613940148
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Studies in generative grammar, , 0167-4331 ; ; 108
• Classificazione: IB 1380
• Altri autori (Persone): LarrañagaMaría Pilar; Guijarro FuentesPedro
• Disciplina: 440.04019
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Pronoun; Grammar, Comparative and general - Clitics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Clitics: to be or not to be / Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro / Larrañaga, Pilar -- Collecting data and measuring competence / Larrañaga, María Pilar / Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro -- On the prosodic structure of articles in L1 acquisition of Spanish / Lleó, Conxita -- Third person clitic production and omission in Romance SLI / Gavarró, Anna -- Which category replaces an omitted clitic? The case of European Portuguese / Costa, João / Lobo, Maria / Silva, Carolina -- (A)symmetries in the production of object clitics by Romanian children / Coene, Martine / Avram, Larisa -- Clitics in the acquisition of inalienable possession in French / Schmitz, Katrin -- Children's Acquisition of Subject Markers in isiXhosa / Smouse, Mantoa / Gxilishe, Sandile / de Villiers, Jill G. / de Villiers, Peter A. -- The Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in Swahili / Deen, Kamil -- Endocliticization and the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis: Insights from Degema / Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel -- Afterword: On clitic omission and the acquisition of subject clitic pronouns / Cardinaletti, Anna -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from ; personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on...