LEADER 04974nam 22007334a 450 001 9910969361503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612156267 010 $a9781282156265 010 $a1282156268 010 $a9789027293978 010 $a902729397X 024 7 $a10.1075/lald.40 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244037 035 $a(OCoLC)191952754 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10103926 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096779 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11122234 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096779 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10081897 035 $a(PQKB)11512307 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL622203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10103926 035 $a(DE-B1597)720730 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027293978 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244037 100 $a20050927d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe acquisition of Swahili /$fKamil Ud Deen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aLanguage acquisition & language disorders,$x0925-0123 ;$vv. 40 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9789027253002 311 08$a9027253005 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index. 327 $aThe Acquisition of Swahili -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. SETTING THE SCENE -- 1.0. Introduction -- 1.1. The Study -- 1.2. Early Morphosyntactic Convergence -- 1.3. Acquisition of Bantu Languages -- 1.4. Other Morphologically Rich Languages -- 1.5. Organization -- 2. THE SWAHILI LANGUAGE -- Part I: Description -- 2.1. Basic Facts -- 2.2. General Phonological Facts -- 2.3. Noun Classes -- 2.4. The Verbal Complex -- Part II. Theoretical Analysis of Swahili -- 2.5. The Derivation of a Tensed Clause -- 2.6. Null Subjects - null pro -- 2.7. Rate and Context of Null Subjects -- 2.8. Subject Agreement Omission -- 2.9. [-SA] Clauses -- 2.10. Null Subjects in [-SA] Clauses -- 2.11. Rizzi's Null Constant -- 2.12. Null Constants in Swahili -- 2.13. Conclusion -- 3. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION -- 3.1 Theories of Omission in Child Language -- 3.2 Predictions of the Theories of Omission for Swahili -- 3.3 Theories of Null Subjects in Child Language -- 3.4 Predictions of Null Subject Theories for Swahili -- 4. RESULTS AND EVALUATING THEORIES -- 4.0. Introduction and the Children -- 4.1 Results - Clause Types in Child Swahili -- 4.2 Results - Null Subjects in Child Swahili -- 4.3 Revisiting Theories of Omission -- 4.4 Revisiting Theories of Null Subjects -- 4.5 Remaining questions -- 4.6 Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. METHODOLOGY AND RELATED ISSUES. -- 1.1 Children -- 1.2 Data Collection -- 1.3 Linguistic Measures -- APPENDIX 2. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF ADULT SWAHILI -- APPENDIX 3. THE STAGING PROCESS -- APPENDIX 4. INDIVIDUAL CHILD DATA -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- INDEX OF NAMES -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders. 330 $aThis monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surveys the adult dialect in question, Nairobi Swahili, discussing social, phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Data, analyses and copious examples are presented of the naturalistic speech of four Swahili speaking children. The data are tested against six influential theories of child language, and the results show that processing and metrical theories of telegraphic speech fail to account for the observed patterns, while grammatical theories of child language fair significantly better. The data and analyses presented in this book are indispensable for linguists and psychologists interested in the acquisition of inflectional material and other cross-linguistic properties of child language. 410 0$aLanguage acquisition & language disorders ;$vv. 40. 606 $aSwahili language$xAcquisition 606 $aSwahili language$xDialects$zKenya$zNairobi 606 $aSwahili language$xVerb 606 $aSwahili language$xAffixes 606 $aChildren$xLanguage 615 0$aSwahili language$xAcquisition. 615 0$aSwahili language$xDialects 615 0$aSwahili language$xVerb. 615 0$aSwahili language$xAffixes. 615 0$aChildren$xLanguage. 676 $a496/.3928 700 $aUd Deen$b Kamil$01800387 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969361503321 996 $aThe acquisition of Swahili$94345147 997 $aUNINA