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245 00 $aCrosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure /$c[edited by] Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown.
260 $aNew York :$bLawrence Erlbaum Associates,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $aviii, 370 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction /$rMelissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown -- $gI.$tVerb Meaning and Verb Syntax: Crosslinguistic Puzzles for Language Learners -- $g2.$tA Person, a Place, or a Thing? Whorfian Consequences of Syntactic Bootstrapping in Mopan Maya /$rEve Danziger -- $g3.$tThe Pitfalls of Getting from Here to There: Bootstrapping the Syntax and Semantics of Motion Event Coding in Yukatek Maya /$rJurgen Bohnemeyer -- $g4.$tMaking Sense of Complex Verbs: On the Semantics and Argument Structure of Closed-Class Verbs and Coverbs in Jaminjung /$rEva Schultze-Berndt -- $g5.$tFigure-Ground Indeterminacy in Descriptions of Spatial Relations: A Construction Grammar Account /$rSotaro Kita -- $g6.$tLearning Verbs without Boots and Straps? The Problem of 'Give' in Saliba /$rAnna Margetts -- $gII.$tParticipants Present and Absent: Argument Ellipsis and Verb Learning -- $g7.$tSame Argument Structure, Different Meanings: Learning 'Put' and 'Look' in Arrernte /$rDavid Wilkins -- $g8.$tVerb Specificity and Argument Realization in Tzeltal Child Language /$rPenelope Brown -- $g9.$tInteracting Pragmatic Influences on Children's Argument Realization /$rShanley E. M. Allen -- $gIII.$tTransitvity, Intransitivity, and Their Associated Meanings: A Complex Work-Space for Learnability -- $g10.$tIntransitive Verbs in Ewe and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis /$rJames Essegbey -- $g11.$tHe died old dying to be dead right: Transitivity and Semantic Shifts of 'Die' in Ewe in Crosslinguistic Perspective /$rFelix K. Ameka -- $g12.$tAcquiring Telicity Crosslinguistically: On the Acquisition of Telicity Entailments Associated with Transitivity /$rAngeliek van Hout -- $g13.$tThe Acquisition of the English Causative Alternation /$rMelissa Bowerman and William Croft -- $g14.$tWhat Adverbs Have to Do with Learning the Meaning of Verbs /$rAngelika Wittek -- $g15.$tEvent Realization in Tamil /$rEric Pederson.
520 1 $a"Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability offers an interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Much contemporary work in linguistics and psychology assumes that argument structure is strongly constrained by a set of universal principles, and that these principles are innate, providing children with certain bootstrapping strategies that help them home in on basic aspects of the syntax and lexicon of their language. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized. This diversity raises challenges for many existing proposals about language acquisition, affects the range of solutions that can be considered plausible, and highlights new acquisition puzzles that until now have passed unnoticed." "The volume is the outcome of a research project and comprises chapters by both specialists in first language acquisition and field linguists working on a variety of lesser-known languages. The research draws on original fieldwork and on adult data, child data, or both from seventeen languages from eleven different language families. Some chapters offer typological perspectives, examining the basic structures of a given language with language-learnability issues in mind. Other chapters investigate specific problems of language acquisition in one or more languages. Taken as a whole, the volume illustrates how detailed work on crosslinguistic variation is critical to the development of insightful theories of language acquisition." "Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure integrates contemporary issues in linguistics and language acquisition. With its crosslinguistic base and the empirical methods it showcases for studying the role of argument structure in language acquisition, it will be of interest to linguists and language acquisition specialists alike, as well as to upper-level students in linguistics and psychology in the United States and abroad."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLanguage acquisition.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074511
650 0 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSyntax.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056338
650 0 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xVerb.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056344
650 0 $aSemantics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119870
700 1 $aBowerman, Melissa.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99057384
700 1 $aBrown, Penelope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86101572
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006025579-t.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006025579-d.html
852 00 $bsci$hP118$i.C767 2008