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The Acquisition of Verb Placement

Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition
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The twelve 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 evidence examined is the placement of verbs, especially in verb-second constructions. Since the position of verbal elements depends on the finiteness distinction (the presence of agreement and tense markings), the development of these phenomena is studied as well. Although there is consensus among the authors that grammars in the course of language acquisition conform at each stage to the principles of universal grammar, they disagree on whether the full repertoire of functional categories is available from early on, or whether some are implemented only later. The studies presented here investigate monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition as well as adult second language acquisition. The languages studied are Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Sesotho, and Swedish.
Release date Australia
August 31st, 1992
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Jurgen M. Meisel
Illustrations
index
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9780792319061
Product ID
14105455

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