| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 277 pages) |
| Contents |
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND THE FORM OF THE GRAMMAR; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Epigraph; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. A Re-Definition of the Problem; Chapter 2. Project-a, Argument-Linking, and Telegraphic Speech; Chapter 3. Adjoin-a and Relative Clauses; Chapter 4. Agreement and Merger; Chapter 5. The Abrogation of DS Functions: Dislocated Constituents and Indexing Relations; References; Index |
| Summary |
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language acquisition. Challenging the conventional division between language acquisition and syntax, this influential work constructs a new understanding of phrase structure, bringing syntactic data to bear on phrase structure composition. Two new phrase structure composition operations are proposed, Adjoin-a, which |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Generative grammar.
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Language Development
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Generative grammar
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Language acquisition
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Taalverwerving.
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Generatieve grammatica.
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Universele grammatica.
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Syntaxis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027298454 |
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9027298459 |
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9781556198588 |
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1556198582 |
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1282162713 |
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9781282162716 |
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9786612162718 |
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6612162716 |
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