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001 2006025579
003 DLC
005 20080424140754.0
008 060816s2008 njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006025579
020 $a9780805841947 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0805841946 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9781410616456 (e book)
020 $a1410616452 (e book)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71321429
035 $a(OCoLC)71321429
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aP118$b.C767 2008
082 00 $a415$222
245 00 $aCrosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure /$c[edited by] Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown.
260 $aNew York :$bLawrence Erlbaum Associates,$cc2008.
300 $aviii, 370 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown -- Verb meaning and verb syntax : cross-linguistic puzzles for language learners -- A person, a place, or a thing? whorfian consequences of syntactic bootstrapping in Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger -- The pitfalls of getting from here to there : bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event coding in Yukatek Mayan / Jürgen Bohnemeyer -- Making sense of complex verbs: on the semantics and argument structure of closed-class verbs and coverbs in jaminjung / Eva Schultze-Berndt -- Figure-ground indeterminacy in descriptions of spatial relations : a construction grammar account / Sotaro Kita -- Learning verbs without boots and straps? the problem of 'give' in Saliba / Anna Margetts -- Participants present and absent : argument ellipsis and verb learning -- Same argument structure, different meanings : learning "put" and "look" in Arrernte / David Wilkins -- Verb specificity and argument realization in Tzeltal child language / Penelope Brown -- Interacting pragmatic influences on children's argument realization / Shanley E.M. Allen -- Transitivity, intransitivity, and their associated meanings : a complex work-space for learnability -- Intransitive verbs in Ewe and the unaccusativity hypothesis / James Essegbey -- He died old dying to be dead right: transitivity and semantic shifts of "die" in Ewe in crosslinguistic perspective / Felix Ameka -- Acquiring telicity cross-linguistically : on the acquisition of telicity entailments associated with transitivity / Angeliekan Hout -- The acquisition of the English causative alternation / Melissa Bowerman and William Croft -- What adverbs have to do with learning the meaning of verbs / Angelika Wittek -- Event realization in Tamil / Eric Pederson.
650 0 $aLanguage acquisition.
650 0 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSyntax.
650 0 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xVerb.
650 0 $aSemantics.
700 1 $aBowerman, Melissa.
700 1 $aBrown, Penelope.
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