Language acquisition studies in generative grammar : papers in honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991 GLOW workshops /

Corporate Author: GLOW Conference Leiden University)
Other Authors: Hoekstra, Teun, Schwartz, Bonnie D., Wexler, Kenneth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: GLOW workshops Amsterdam Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1994
Series:Language acquisition & language disorders, 8
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on the initial stages of language acquisition / Teun Hoekstra & Bonnie Schwartz
  • VP, null arguments, and COMP projections / Nina Hyams
  • Crosslinguistic evidence for functional projections in early child grammar / Vivian Deprez & Amy Pierce
  • The seeds of structure : a syntactic analysis of the acquisition of case marking / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Anne Vainikka
  • From adjunct to head / Teun Hoekstra & Peter Jordens
  • Early null subjects and root null subjects / Luigi Rizzi
  • Asking questions without CPs? : on the acquisition of root wh-questions in Bernese Swiss German and Standard German / Zvi Penner
  • Successful cyclic movement / Rosalind Thornton & Stephen Crain
  • Early acquisition of scrambling in Japanese / Yukio Otsu
  • Direct access to Xʹ-theory : evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German / Anne Vainikka & Martha Young-Scholten
  • Word order and nominative case in non-native language acquisition : a longitudinal study of (L1 Turkish) German interlanguage / Bonnie D. Schwartz & Rex A. Sprouse
  • Optionality and the initial state in L2 development / Lynn Eubank