基本説明
The contributions of this volume are inspired by or related to the scholarship of Nina Hyams, whose dedication to rigorous, theoretically-informed research on language is well represented here.
Full Description
The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the volume illustrate ways in which theoretically informed linguistic research can explain language behavior in terms that are motivated on independent grounds and point towards new research opportunities to test theoretical claims about the adult model of grammar. The contributions of this volume are inspired by or related to the scholarship of Nina Hyams, whose dedication to rigorous, theoretically-informed research on language is well represented here.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Becker, Misha); 2. Part I. Argument structure and clause-internal syntax in children; 3. Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English (by Becker, Misha); 4. Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children's passive acquisition (by Sano, Tetsuya); 5. Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese?: Evidence from spontaneous production data (by Santos, Ana Lucia); 6. The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English (by Schutze, Carson); 7. The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI (by Grinstead, John); 8. Part II. The DP domain; 9. The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children (by Sigurjonsdottir, Sigridur); 10. Pronouns vs. definite descriptions (by Johnson, Kyle); 11. An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds (by Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa); 12. The syntactic domain of content (by Borer, Hagit); 13. Part III. Learning theory; 14. There-insertion: How Internal Merge guides the acquisition path (by Roeper, Tom); 15. Metalinguistic skills of children (by Cairns, Helen); 16. Children's Grammatical Conservatism: New evidence (by Sugisaki, Koji); 17. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies (by Belletti, Adriana); 18. A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children: Information-structure meets phasal computation (by Wexler, Kenneth); 19. Index
