Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina	401/.93
Altri autori (Persone)	KiddEvan James
Collana	Trends in language acquisition research
Soggetto topico	Language acquisition - Age factors Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Language awareness in children Communicative competence in children
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-32903-4 9786613329035 90-272-8340-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Acquisition of Relative Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction: The acquisition of relative clauses; References; 1.Relative clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Emergentism; 3. The syntax of relative clauses; 4. The processing of relative clauses; Prominence; The distance between filler and gap; Chinese; Japanese and Korean; Summary; 5. The acquisition of relative clauses; The path problem; The closure problem; 6. Concluding remarks; References; 2.A connectionist account of the acquisition and processing of relative clauses 1. Introduction2. The relative clause accessibility hierarchy; 2.1 The accessibility hierarchy in development; 3. Modeling the acquisition of relative clauses; 3.1 Language and method; 3.2 Modeling results; 4. From acquisition to adult processing; 4.1 Experience and relative clauses processing; 5. Conclusion; References; 3.Learning from social interaction; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Development of linguistic constructions in usage-based and constructivist approaches: Chunks, schemas, and prototypes; 2. Form and function of relative clauses in adult-adult interactions 3. Form and function of relative clauses in child-adult interactions3.1 A cross-linguistic comparison of subject and object RCs in children's and adults' speech; 3.2 A cross-linguistic comparison of the head NPs in children's and adults' RC constructions; 3.3 A cross-linguistic comparison of the function of RCs in children's and adults' speech; 4. Experimental evidence for relative-clause chunks and prototypes; 4.1 Propositional complexity; 4.2 Similarity to simple main clauses; 4.3 Linguistic and semantic context of subject and object RCs; 5. New focus on function; 6. Conclusion; References 4.Relative clause acquisition in Hebrew and the learning of constructionsIntroduction; Relative clauses in Hebrew; The developmental path of relative clauses in Hebrew; Production; The corpus; Coding; Results and discussion; How adult-like are children's relative clauses?; How does the construction develop over time?; Comprehension; Input patterns and gender agreement; Method; Results and discussion; Integrating multiple cues; What early constructions look like and how they develop over time; Conclusions; References; 5.Finnish; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Relative clauses in Finnish What we know about RC acquisition based on observational studiesMethod; Corpus; Searches; Coding; Results; Relative clauses in Piia's speech; Discussion; The head referent; Centre-embedding; The syntactic role of the relativized element; The number of relative clauses in the Finnish data; Conclusion; References; 6.Learning to produce Quechua relative clauses; Introduction; Quechua nominalized relative clauses; Questions and issues; Production of externally-headed, internally-headed, and free relatives Ease of production of relative clauses according to the function of the relativized Noun Phrase
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Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina	401/.93
Altri autori (Persone)	KiddEvan James
Collana	Trends in language acquisition research
Soggetto topico	Language acquisition - Age factors Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Language awareness in children Communicative competence in children
ISBN	1-283-32903-4 9786613329035 90-272-8340-0
Classificazione	ER 920 ET 730
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Acquisition of Relative Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction: The acquisition of relative clauses; References; 1.Relative clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Emergentism; 3. The syntax of relative clauses; 4. The processing of relative clauses; Prominence; The distance between filler and gap; Chinese; Japanese and Korean; Summary; 5. The acquisition of relative clauses; The path problem; The closure problem; 6. Concluding remarks; References; 2.A connectionist account of the acquisition and processing of relative clauses 1. Introduction2. The relative clause accessibility hierarchy; 2.1 The accessibility hierarchy in development; 3. Modeling the acquisition of relative clauses; 3.1 Language and method; 3.2 Modeling results; 4. From acquisition to adult processing; 4.1 Experience and relative clauses processing; 5. Conclusion; References; 3.Learning from social interaction; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Development of linguistic constructions in usage-based and constructivist approaches: Chunks, schemas, and prototypes; 2. Form and function of relative clauses in adult-adult interactions 3. Form and function of relative clauses in child-adult interactions3.1 A cross-linguistic comparison of subject and object RCs in children's and adults' speech; 3.2 A cross-linguistic comparison of the head NPs in children's and adults' RC constructions; 3.3 A cross-linguistic comparison of the function of RCs in children's and adults' speech; 4. Experimental evidence for relative-clause chunks and prototypes; 4.1 Propositional complexity; 4.2 Similarity to simple main clauses; 4.3 Linguistic and semantic context of subject and object RCs; 5. New focus on function; 6. Conclusion; References 4.Relative clause acquisition in Hebrew and the learning of constructionsIntroduction; Relative clauses in Hebrew; The developmental path of relative clauses in Hebrew; Production; The corpus; Coding; Results and discussion; How adult-like are children's relative clauses?; How does the construction develop over time?; Comprehension; Input patterns and gender agreement; Method; Results and discussion; Integrating multiple cues; What early constructions look like and how they develop over time; Conclusions; References; 5.Finnish; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Relative clauses in Finnish What we know about RC acquisition based on observational studiesMethod; Corpus; Searches; Coding; Results; Relative clauses in Piia's speech; Discussion; The head referent; Centre-embedding; The syntactic role of the relativized element; The number of relative clauses in the Finnish data; Conclusion; References; 6.Learning to produce Quechua relative clauses; Introduction; Quechua nominalized relative clauses; Questions and issues; Production of externally-headed, internally-headed, and free relatives Ease of production of relative clauses according to the function of the relativized Noun Phrase
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Autore	Loock Rudy
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (247 p.)
Disciplina	425
Collana	Studies in discourse and grammar (SIDAG)
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Discourse analysis English language - Semantics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-55866-8 9786612558665 90-272-8845-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456756703321

Autore	Bianchi Valentina <1969->
Edizione	[Reprint 2011]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (371 p.)
Disciplina	415
Collana	Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Soggetto topico	Generative grammar Asymmetry (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-080337-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter I. The theoretical background: Kayne's (1994) "Antisymmetry of Syntax" -- Chapter II. Restrictive relative clauses -- Chapter III. The syntax of relative determiners -- Chapter IV. A reconstruction asymmetry -- Chapter V. Appositive relative clauses -- Chapter VI. Doubly filled Comp effects -- Chapter VII. The complementizer system of headed relative clauses -- Chapter VIII. Stacking, coordination, and extraposition -- Chapter IX. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462736803321

Autore	Loock Rudy
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (247 p.)
Disciplina	425
Collana	Studies in discourse and grammar (SIDAG)
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Discourse analysis English language - Semantics
ISBN	1-282-55866-8 9786612558665 90-272-8845-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Appositive Relative Clauses in English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Appositive relative clauses (ARCs) -- 1. Definitions and previous studies -- 1. The traditional appositive/determinative dichotomy -- 2. Distinctive criteria -- 2.1 A semantic/referential distinction -- 2.2 The punctuation criterion -- 2.3 The morphosyntactic criteria -- 2.4 Other criteria -- 2.5 The syntactic representation(s) of ARCs -- 2.6 Conclusion on the DRC-ARC distinction -- 3. Problems -- 3.1 The limits of the distinction -- 3.2 The specific problem of DRCs with indefinite antecedents -- 3.3 An operational dichotomy? -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4. Previous studies on the role of ARC s -- 4.1 ARCs as background information -- 4.2 Previous attempts at defining taxonomies -- 5. Conclusion -- 2. Atypical appositive relative clauses -- 1. Starting point: "Are you a good which or a bad which?" -- 2. Definitions -- 2.1 Typical vs. atypical ARCs -- 2.2 Corpus -- 2.3 Description of the data -- 2.4 Dysfluencies vs. syntactic variation -- 2.5 Analysis -- 3. Conclusion -- Part II. The discourse functions of ARCs -- 3. The corpus -- 1. The written corpus -- 1.1 Four sub-corpora -- 1.2 Morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of written ARCs -- 2. The spoken corpus -- 2.1 Definitions -- 2.2 The corpus -- 2.3 Morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of spoken ARCs -- 2.4 Conclusion on the written/spoken distinction -- 3. Conclusion -- 4. The discourse functions of ARCs -- 1. Introductory presentation -- 2. Continuative ARCs -- 2.1 Definition -- 2.2 Characteristics -- 3. Relevance ARCs -- 3.1 Relevance: A definition -- 3.2 Definition of relevance ARCs -- 3.3 The different discourse strategies -- 3.4 From relevance to politeness -- 3.5 Relevance vs. relevance -- 3.6 Characteristics. 4. Subjectivity ARC s -- 4.1 Definitions -- 4.2 The different discourse strategies -- 4.3 Characteristics -- 5. Register variation: Spoken vs. written ARCs -- 5.1 Frequency -- 5.2 Discourse distribution -- 5.3 Specific (conversational) functions -- 6. The correlation between the discourse functions of ARCs and their prosodic realizations -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The prosody of ARCs vs. the prosody of parentheticals in general -- 6.3 The prosody of ARCs in relation to their functions in discourse -- 7. Conclusion -- Part III. ARCs and their competing "allostructures" -- 5. The information-packaging function of syntactic structures and the definition of allostructures -- 1. Definitions -- 1.1 Information packaging -- 1.2 Allostructures: Definitions and methodology -- 1.3 Defining the allostructures of ARCs -- 2. Apposition: The natural allostructure of ARC s? -- 2.1 Apposition: An attempt at definition -- 2.2 Definitions -- 2.3 Apposition and ARCs: Many similarities -- 2.4 A failed rendez-vous? -- 3. Apposition and ARC s as allostructures -- 3.1 ARCs vs. 'simple' nominal apposition -- 3.2 ARCs vs. 'complex' nominal apposition -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. Appositive relative clauses -- 1. What (other) allostructures for ARC s (alloARC s)? -- 2. Syntactic phenomena -- 3. Semantic and pragmatic phenomena -- 3.1 The hierarchization of information -- 3.2 Thematic progression: ARCs vs. preposing -- 3.3 The explicitness/implicitness of the link between the information contents -- 4. Other influencing parameters -- 4.1 Register variation -- 4.2 Stylistic variation -- 5. Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Index -- The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar.
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