The acquisition of finiteness [electronic resource] / by Elma Blom.
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 finite.
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- ISBN: 9783110211436 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 3110211432 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 162 p.) : ill.
- Publisher: Berlin ; Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-159) and index. |
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