05844nam 2200709Ia 450 991045237760332120200520144314.01-299-39643-790-272-7226-3(CKB)2550000001017764(EBL)1158339(OCoLC)833766446(SSID)ssj0000856176(PQKBManifestationID)12305866(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856176(PQKBWorkID)10806082(PQKB)11042534(MiAaPQ)EBC1158339(Au-PeEL)EBL1158339(CaPaEBR)ebr10676925(CaONFJC)MIL470893(EXLCZ)99255000000101776420130107d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenerative linguistics and acquisition[electronic resource] studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams /Edited by Misha Becker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ; John Grinstead The Ohio State University, Columbus ; Jason Rothman ; University of Florida, GainesvilleAmsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company20131 online resource (364 p.)Language acquisition and language disorders,0925-0123 ;v. 54Description based upon print version of record.90-272-5316-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Generative Linguistics and Acquisition; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; References; Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background: The unaccusative-unergative distinction; 3. Previous studies: Arguments for and against A-movement in children's unaccusatives; 4. English unaccusatives: Diagnostics and predictions for child language; 5. Method; 6. Results; 6.1 Subject animacy; 6.2 Null subjects; 6.3 Resultatives; 6.4 Postverbal subjects; 7. Conclusions; ReferencesRemarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children's passive acquisition1. Introduction; 2. A-chains in Japanese passives; 2.1 An empty category in Japanese ni direct passive; 2.2 A-chain or anaphora with pro?; 2.3 The A-chain analysis of Japanese ni direct passives; 3. The ACDH account of children's passive acquisition; 3.1. English passive acquisition and the ACDH; 3.2 Japanese passive acquisition and the ACDH; 4. Comparing the long passive and the long passive-unaccusative amalgam; 4.1 Establishing a minimal pair; 4.2 Experimental data; 5. Comparing the long passive and the short passive6. Discussion6.1 A θ-transmission Difficulty Hypothesis account; 6.2 On raising acquisition; References; Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese?; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntax and semantics of (canonical) inflected infinitives; 3. Acquisition of inflected infinitives in EP; 3.1 Methodology; 3.2 First spontaneous inflected infinitives in European Portuguese; 3.3 Discussion; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous work: Hoekstra, Hyams, and Becker2.1 Theoretical proposal2.2 English data; 2.3 German data; 2.4 Dutch data; 3. New English counts; 3.1 Transcripts and counting procedures; 3.2 Results; 4. Implications; Acknowledgments; References; The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI; 1. Introduction; 2. Tense and aspect; 2.1 Aspect before tense; 3. Tense and root infinitives in child Spanish; 3.1 Tense and root infinitives in Spanish-speaking children with SLI; 3.2 SLI as a tense deficit at the semantic level; 4. Research questions; 5. Methods; 5.1 Participants; 5.2 Procedures; 6. Results; 7. Conclusions; ReferencesThe acquisition of reflexives and pronounsby Faroese children1. Introduction; 2. Basic binding facts of Faroese; 3. Experimental setup; 4. Results; 4.1 The developmental delay of pronouns; 4.2 How do Faroese adults judge sentences with seg?; 4.3 How do Faroese children acquire the binding properties of seg?; 5. Conclusion; References; Pronouns vs. definite descriptions; 1. Introduction; 2. Schlenker's Principle C; 3. The restrictors of pronouns; 3.1 Minimal pronouns; 3.2 Minimize Restrictor! + minimal pronouns = Principle C; 4. Evidence from Vehicle Change; 5. Consequences for acquisitionReferencesThis paper proposes a new theory of why null-subjects of finite verbs are produced by young children developing a non-null-subject language. We first show that one of the extant theories, Topic-Drop, isn't supported. Modifying ideas proposed in Rizzi (2006), we assume that finite null-subjects arise in the specifier of a root TP, and may be null as the result of phasal computation. But we reject the idea that the selection of a root is an arbitrary, parametric process. Using new work in syntactic theory that relates information structure (namely undistinguished subjects) to root Tense PhrasesLanguage Acquisition and Language DisordersGenerative grammarLanguage acquisitionEnglish languageAcquisitionElectronic books.Generative grammar.Language acquisition.English languageAcquisition.410Hyams Nina M.1952-Becker Misha Karen1973-Grinstead JohnRothman JasonMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452377603321Generative linguistics and acquisition2230456UNINA