The Acquisition of Verb Placement: Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The twelve original contributions in this volume all focus on the question of whether developing grammars contain, at each stage of language acquisition, the full range of functional categories such as INFL, AGR, or COMP. The crucal evidence examined is the placement of verbs, especially in verb-second constructions. Since the position of verbal elements depends in the finiteness distinction, viz. on the presence of agreement and tense markings, the development of these phenomena is studied as well. Although there is consensus among the authors of the volume that grammars in the c...
ISBN(s)
0792319060, 9780792319061
