Dagmar Bittner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dagmar Bittner plays a role.

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Bittner, Dagmar 2007 Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisitionNominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 215–240 | Article
The paper discusses the functional load of definite DPs in early child German regarding sentence-internal (argument structure) and sentence-external relations (text coherence). The data consist of adult-child dialogues of two children in the period 1;11–2;11. It is argued that DPs exhibit… read more