John Grinstead

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Grinstead plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams

Edited by Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman 2013 IntroductionGenerative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Grinstead, John, Dan McCurley, Teresa Pratt, Patrick Obregon and Blanca Flores 2013 The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLIGenerative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article
Children with SLI manifest difficulties with tense, however it is not clear whether it is limited to morphosyntax or extends to semantics. Typically-developing children show a bias towards using the telicity of predicates to guide their use of grammatical aspect and tense – possibly for information… read more
Grinstead, John 2009 IntroductionHispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. xiii–xx | Article
Existing research into specific language impairment in Spanish utilizes primarily spontaneous production data and concludes that children do not have problems with verb finiteness. In contrast, we show, through a new receptive measure, the “Grammaticality Choice Task”, that the distribution of the… read more
Vargas-Tokuda, Marissa, John Grinstead and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach 2009 Context and the Scalar Implicatures of Indefinites in Child SpanishHispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 93–116 | Article
In this chapter we review current work on the semantics-pragmatics interface in the adult language and present a description, from earlier work, of the distinct distribution and properties of two Spanish indefinite determiners: unos and algunos. We evaluate the degree to which current theories are… read more
Grinstead, John 1998 Negation and Independent Morphological DevelopmentRomance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives, Schwegler, Armin, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), pp. 97–110 | Article