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This volume presents a survey of research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, illustrating the difference between child and adult grammar.

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Author:   Marc-Ariel Friedemann ,  Luigi Rizzi
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   Longman
Dimensions:   Width: 24.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9780582328839

ISBN 10:   0582328837
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   18 October 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780582328822
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

The acquisition of syntax - introduction, Marc-Ariel Friedemann and Luigi Rizzi; the acquisition of the DP in German child language, Sonja Eisenbeiss; early French postverbal subjects, Marc-Ariel Freidemann; split inflection in neurolinguistics, Na'ama Friedmann and Yosef Grodzinsky; an excursion into interrogatives in early English and Italian, Maria Teresa Guasti; adult null subjects in non pro-drop languages, Liliane Haegeman; the acquisition of constitutent questions and the requirements of interpretation, Cornelia Hamann; accounting for morphological variation in second language acquistion - truncation or missing inflection? Philippe Prevost and Lydia White; null subjects and root infinitives in child grammar of Grench, Lucienne Rasetti; remarks on early null subjects, Luigi Rizzi; the acquisition of verb placement in Lucernese Swiss German, Manuela Schonenberger.

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