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Author Montrul, Silvina.

Title The acquisition of Spanish : morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition / Silvina A. Montrul
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 411 pages) : illustrations
Series Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 37. Monographs on the acquisition of specific languages ; 1
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 37.
Language acquisition & language disorders. Monographs on the acquisition of specific languages ; 1.
Contents The Acquisition of Spanish; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; Preface; 1. Theoretical foundations; 2. Morphosyntax of the noun phrase; 3. Morphosyntax of the verb phrase; 4. Subject and object pronouns; 5. Topics, questions, embedding, and movement; 6. Verb meaning and lexical parameters; Conclusion; References; Author index; Subject index; The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
Summary Annotation This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology, subject and object pronouns, complex structures involving movement (topicalizations, questions, relative clauses), and aspects of verb meaning that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a fundamental continuity between monolingual, bilingual, child and adult early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect to linguistic representations and processes, the book also considers important differences between these three acquisition situations with respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-400) and indexes
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Subject Spanish language -- Morphosyntax
Spanish language -- Acquisition
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
Spanish language -- Acquisition
Spaans.
Taalverwerving.
Morfosyntaxis.
Acquisition d'une langue seconde.
Adulte.
Apprentissage.
Espagnol (Langue)
Langue.
Morphosyntaxe.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027294906
9027294909
9789027252968
9027252963
Other Titles Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition