Eintrag

Titel

The Acquisition of Finiteness

Personen

Elma Blom

Jahr

2008

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

Mouton de Gruyter

Ort

Amsterdam, Berlin, New York

Reihe

Studies in generative grammar

Band

94

Schlagwörter

Konjugation
Spracherwerb
Verb

Abstract

The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. It contains a critical empirical assessment of the various hypotheses, lists the implications for linguistic theory and provides alternative analyses. Issues covered are: (i) the semantics of children¿s root infinitives (tense, modality and aspect), (ii) the relation between lexical, morphological and syntactic development in the domain of finiteness, (iii) the role of the input, and (iv) the interference of cognitive development. Typological focus is on Germanic languages.

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