Acquisition of Verbs and Their Grammar The Effect of Particular Languages

Name: Acquisition of Verbs and Their Grammar The Effect of Particular Languages
Price: 169.17 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781402043345

ISBN-10: 1402043341

ISBN-13: 9781402043345

Edition: 2008

Authors: Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gï¿½lzow

List price: $169.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $169.17

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of papers gives empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Estonian, Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach. Currently debated topics, such as the role of frequency, as well as traditional ones such as bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of language-specific, learner-specific and more general properties of the…

Book details

List price: $169.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 3/29/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 351
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 3.322
Language: English

Insa GÃ¼lzow and Natalia Gagarina, Zentrum fÃ¼r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany.



Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective : evidence from child Hebrew



Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew



Strategies in the L1-acquisition of predication : the copula construction in German and Croatian



Why not all verbs are learned equally : the intransitive verb bias in Japanese



Dynamic event words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings



The early stages of verb acquisition in English, Spanish and German



Finiteness in children and adults learning Dutch



The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian



Analytical and synthetic verb constructions in Russian and English child language



The acquisition of verbal inflection in Estonian : two case studies



Grammatical role of French first verbs



Speaker and hearer reference in Russian speaking children