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Table of Contents
Introduction / 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.
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