02451cam a2200289 a 4500 3052539 19970619110134.7 960425s1996 ne a b 101 0 eng (DLC) 96022417 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg pc16 to la00 04-25-96; lg02 to le03 04-26-96; le03 04-29-96; le02 to ddc 04-29-96;aa05 04-30-96; cip ver. yj03 06-10-97 96022417 1556197772 DLC DLC DLC P118 .G36 1996 401/.93 20 Generative perspectives on language acquisition : empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons / edited by Harald Clahsen. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1996. xxvii, 499 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 14 Chiefly based on papers presented at a workshop held Mar. 18-20, 1994, University of Essex. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. The optional-infinitive stage in child English / Tony Harris & Ken Wexler -- Towards a structure-building model of acquisition / Andrew Radford -- The underspecification of functional categories in early grammar / Nina Hyams -- Lexical learning in early syntactic development / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Martina Penke -- Strong continuity, parameter setting, and the trigger hierarchy : on the acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German / Zvi Penner & Jürgen Weissenborn -- Subject-verb and object-verb agreement in early Basque / Jürgen M. Meisel & Maria-Jose Ezeizabarrena -- Acquisition of Italian interrogatives / Maria Teresa Guasti -- Root infinitives, clitics, and truncated structures / Liliane Haegeman -- On the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French / Cornelia Hamann, Luigi Rizzi & Uli H. Frauenfelder -- Clitics in L2 French / Lydia White -- The initial hypothesis of syntax : a minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition / Christer Platzack -- The role of merger theory and formal features in acquisition / Thomas Roeper -- Now, hang on a minute : some reflections on emerging orthodoxies / Martin Atkinson. Language acquisition Congresses. Generative grammar Congresses. Clahsen, Harald. c-GenColl P118 .G36 1996 00035020494 Copy 1 14 BOOKS