Language acquisition studies in generative grammar
[Book]
papers in honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991 GLOW workshops /
edited by Teun Hoekstra, Bonnie D. Schwartz.
Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
1994.
xii, 401 p. :
ill.
Language acquisition & language disorders,
v. 8.
0925-0123 ;
Based on papers presented at workshops on syntactic acquisition organized as part of the 14th GLOW Conference which was held Mar. 1991, Leiden University.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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 X'-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.