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Author Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2008)

Title Little words : their history, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and acquisition / Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere, editors
Published Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations
Series Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics series
Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
Contents Introduction / Ronal P. Leow, Héctor Campos, Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University -- Part I: History -- From "two" to "both" : historical changes in the syntax and meaning of Oba in Slavic / Agnieszka Lazorczyk, Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California -- When small words collide : morphological reduction and phonological compensation in Old Leonese contractions / Minta Elsman, D. Eric Holt, University of South Carolina -- Part II: Phonology -- Distinguishing function words from content words in children's oral reading / Carol Lord, Robert Berdan, Michael Fender, California State University, Long Beach -- Motivating floating quantifiers / Lisa Rochman, Ben Gruion University -- Part III: Syntax -- Applicative phrases hosting accusative clitics / Luis Śez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid -- The little DE of degree constructions / Remus Gergel, Universität Tübingen -- The complementizer the / Heather Lee Taylor, University of Maryland -- What is there when little words are not there? Possible implications for evolutionary studies / Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University -- Spanish personal a and the antidative / Omar Velázquez-Mendoza, Raúl Aranovich, University of California, Davis -- Part IV: Semantics -- Predicting argument realization from oblique marker semantics / John Beavers, The University of Texas at Austin -- Aspect selectors, scales, and contextual operators : an analysis of temporal adjuncts / Michael F. Thomas, Laura A. Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder -- Distributive effects of the plural marker -tul in Korean / Jong Un Park, Georgetown University -- Part V: Pragmatics -- The pragmatics of the French discouse markers donc and alors / Stéphanie Pellet, Wake Forest University -- "Little words" in small talk: some considerations on the use of the pragmatic markers man in English and macho/tío in peninsular Spanish / Laura Alba-Juez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia -- Little words that could impact one's impression on others: greetings and closings in institutional e-mails / Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, Georgetown University -- Part VI: Acquistion -- Instructed L2 acquisition of differential object marking in Spanish / Melissa Bowles, Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- The role of pedagogical tasks and focus on form in acquisition of discourse markers advanced language learners / Maria José de la Fuente, George Washington University -- Article acquisition in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish / Tanja Kupish, University of Calgary, Merete Anderssen, University of Tromsoø, Ute Bohnacker, Uppsala University, Neil Snape, Hokkaido University -- A continuum in French children's surface realization of auxiliaries / Christina D. Dye, Georgetown University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses
Lexicology -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Lexicology
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Leow, Ronald P. (Ronald Philip), 1954-
Campos, Héctor
Lardiere, Donna
ISBN 9781589015975
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9781589015968
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