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This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. 03 00 Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from different geographic areas with different expressions of ergativity. Each chapter includes a description of ergativity in the language(s), the nature of the input, the social context of acquisition and developmental patterns. Comparisons of the acquisition process across closely related languages are made, change in progress of the ergative systems is discussed and, for one language, acquisition by bilingual and monolingual children is compared. 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Bavin La Trobe University 01 01 JB code tilar.9.02com 06 10.1075/tilar.9.02com 15 34 20 Article 2 01 04 Ergativity Ergativity 01 04 Some recurrent themes Some recurrent themes 1 A01 01 JB code 455198352 Bernard Comrie Comrie, Bernard Bernard Comrie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology cand University of California Santa Barbara 01 01 JB code tilar.9.03aus 06 10.1075/tilar.9.03aus 35 70 36 Article 3 01 04 Ergativity in child Basque Ergativity in child Basque 1 A01 01 JB code 732198353 Jennifer R. Austin Austin, Jennifer R. Jennifer R. Austin Rutgers University 01 01 JB code tilar.9.04all 06 10.1075/tilar.9.04all 71 106 36 Article 4 01 04 The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut 1 A01 01 JB code 894198370 Shanley E.M. Allen Allen, Shanley E.M. Shanley E.M. Allen 01 01 JB code tilar.9.05bav 06 10.1075/tilar.9.05bav 107 132 26 Article 5 01 04 The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri 1 A01 01 JB code 575198355 Edith L. Bavin Bavin, Edith L. Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University 01 01 JB code tilar.9.06rum 06 10.1075/tilar.9.06rum 133 182 50 Article 6 01 04 The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) 1 A01 01 JB code 123198356 Alan Rumsey Rumsey, Alan Alan Rumsey Australian National University 2 A01 01 JB code 305198357 Lila San Roque San Roque, Lila Lila San Roque Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 3 A01 01 JB code 493198371 Bambi B. Schieffelin Schieffelin, Bambi B. Bambi B. Schieffelin 01 01 JB code tilar.9.07sto 06 10.1075/tilar.9.07sto 183 208 26 Article 7 01 04 The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang 1 A01 01 JB code 803198359 Sabine Stoll Stoll, Sabine Sabine Stoll University of Zürich 2 A01 01 JB code 25198360 Balthasar Bickel Bickel, Balthasar Balthasar Bickel University of Zürich 01 01 JB code tilar.9.08nar 06 10.1075/tilar.9.08nar 209 238 30 Article 8 01 04 Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech 1 A01 01 JB code 303198361 Bhuvana Narasimhan Narasimhan, Bhuvana Bhuvana Narasimhan University of Colorado, Boulder 01 01 JB code tilar.9.09mah 06 10.1075/tilar.9.09mah 239 270 32 Article 9 01 04 The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish 1 A01 01 JB code 711198362 Laura J. Mahalingappa Mahalingappa, Laura J. Laura J. Mahalingappa Duquesne University 01 01 JB code tilar.9.10bro 06 10.1075/tilar.9.10bro 271 306 36 Article 10 01 04 The acquisition of agreement in four cMayan languages The acquisition of agreement in four 
Mayan languages 1 A01 01 JB code 971198363 Penelope Brown Brown, Penelope Penelope Brown Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 2 A01 01 JB code 64198364 Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara Barbara Pfeiler National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mérida 3 A01 01 JB code 355198365 Lourdes de León León, Lourdes de Lourdes de León CIESAS, Mexico 4 A01 01 JB code 434198366 Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton Clifton Pye University of Kansas 01 01 JB code tilar.9.11pye 06 10.1075/tilar.9.11pye 307 336 30 Article 11 01 04 The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q'anjob'al and Yucatec The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec 1 A01 01 JB code 862198367 Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton Clifton Pye University of Kansas 2 A01 01 JB code 2198368 Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara Barbara Pfeiler CEPHCIS-UNAM, Mérida 3 A01 01 JB code 212198369 Pedro Mateo Pedro Mateo Pedro, Pedro Pedro Mateo Pedro Universidad Rafael Landivar 01 01 JB code tilar.9.12ind 06 10.1075/tilar.9.12ind 337 342 6 Miscellaneous 12 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20131218 C 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company D 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027234797 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 99.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 83.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 149.00 USD 513008605 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code TiLAR 9 Eb 15 9789027271235 06 10.1075/tilar.9 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code TiLAR 02 1569-0644 02 9.00 01 02 Trends in Language Acquisition Research Trends in Language Acquisition Research 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-all 01 02 Complete backlist (3,208 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Complete backlist (1967–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-tilar 01 02 Trends in Language Acquisition Research (vols. 1–16, 2001–2015) 05 02 TiLAR (vols. 1–16, 2001–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-linguistics 01 02 Subject collection: Linguistics (2,773 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Linguistics (1967–2015) 01 01 The Acquisition of Ergativity The Acquisition of Ergativity 1 B01 01 JB code 891135873 Edith L. Bavin Bavin, Edith L. Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/891135873 2 B01 01 JB code 206135874 Sabine Stoll Stoll, Sabine Sabine Stoll University of Zurich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/206135874 01 eng 11 346 03 03 v 03 00 341 03 01 23 415 03 2013 P291.5 04 Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions. 04 Typology (Linguistics) 10 LAN009000 12 CFDC 24 JB code LIN.APPL Applied linguistics 24 JB code LIN.LA Language acquisition 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. 03 00 Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from different geographic areas with different expressions of ergativity. Each chapter includes a description of ergativity in the language(s), the nature of the input, the social context of acquisition and developmental patterns. Comparisons of the acquisition process across closely related languages are made, change in progress of the ergative systems is discussed and, for one language, acquisition by bilingual and monolingual children is compared. The volume will be of particular interest to language acquisition researchers, linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive scientists. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/tilar.9.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027234797.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027234797.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/tilar.9.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/tilar.9.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/tilar.9.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/tilar.9.hb.png 01 01 JB code tilar.9.01sto 06 10.1075/tilar.9.01sto 1 14 14 Article 1 01 04 The acquisition of ergativity The acquisition of ergativity 1 A01 01 JB code 977198350 Sabine Stoll Stoll, Sabine Sabine Stoll University of Zurich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/977198350 2 A01 01 JB code 33198351 Edith L. Bavin Bavin, Edith L. Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/33198351 01 eng 01 01 JB code tilar.9.02com 06 10.1075/tilar.9.02com 15 34 20 Article 2 01 04 Ergativity Ergativity 01 04 Some recurrent themes Some recurrent themes 1 A01 01 JB code 455198352 Bernard Comrie Comrie, Bernard Bernard Comrie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology cand University of California Santa Barbara 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/455198352 01 eng 03 00

The article examines four areas within ergativity that merit further consideration, including with respect to child language acquisition data: (1) syntactic alignment, including in particular the delimitation of semantic alignment from other kinds of alignment with lexical exceptions, and symmetric voice systems; (2) alignment splits, in particular the interpretation of exceptions to generalizations relating to animacy and definiteness; (3) syntactic alignment biases, especially the interpretation of exceptions; and (4) diachronic issues, in particular the decay of ergativity giving rise to idiosyncrasies like horizontal alignment or to conventionalized use of erstwhile ergative morphology.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.03aus 06 10.1075/tilar.9.03aus 35 70 36 Article 3 01 04 Ergativity in child Basque Ergativity in child Basque 1 A01 01 JB code 732198353 Jennifer R. Austin Austin, Jennifer R. Jennifer R. Austin Rutgers University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/732198353 01 eng 03 00

This chapter analyzes the development of ergativity in 20 bilingual and 11 monolingual children learning Basque by comparing their production of ergative case and agreement to their use of absolutive and dative case and verbal inflection. The children produced ergative verbal inflection earlier than ergative case; however, the opposite was true of dative indirect object agreement, which emerged later than dative case. Several potential factors which may influence the course of morphological development in Basque are evaluated, including morphological complexity, phonological difficulty and input frequency.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.04all 06 10.1075/tilar.9.04all 71 106 36 Article 4 01 04 The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut 1 A01 01 JB code 894198370 Shanley E.M. Allen Allen, Shanley E.M. Shanley E.M. Allen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/894198370 01 eng 03 00

One potential challenge for children learning Inuktitut comes from the ergative case marking system, because of the contrast between the ergative system in morphology and the accusative system governing syntax. However, no studies have yet been published focusing on how Inuktitut-speaking children acquire ergativity. In this chapter, we investigate this process using naturalistic spontaneous speech data from four Inuktitut-speaking children aged 2;0–3;6. We find that these children largely avoid producing structures that require ergative morphology. Analysis of caregiver speech and spoken narratives from older children and adults shows that this avoidance occurs regardless of age. We conclude that Inuktitut may be in the process of historical change from an ergative-absolutive system to a nominative-accusative system, and that the children’s language reflects that change.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.05bav 06 10.1075/tilar.9.05bav 107 132 26 Article 5 01 04 The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri 1 A01 01 JB code 575198355 Edith L. Bavin Bavin, Edith L. Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/575198355 01 eng 03 00

Ellipsis of core arguments in Warlpiri reduces the contexts in which children hear ergative case forms. The chapter discusses this and other possible factors that might impact on children’s acquisition of ergative morphology. Two sets of data are discussed. Naturalistic data show that by the age of three years children use ergative case in the appropriate contexts but have not mastered when to use the different allomorphs. At age four there are examples of ergative forms being used appropriately for agreement and instrumental case. The use of ergative morphology was not extended to non-ergative verbs and not restricted to past tense. The second set of data is based on adult and child narratives elicited with two picture books. It illustrates the contexts for using ergative morphology and the variability in whether subjects are included or omitted within and across age groups.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.06rum 06 10.1075/tilar.9.06rum 133 182 50 Article 6 01 04 The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) 1 A01 01 JB code 123198356 Alan Rumsey Rumsey, Alan Alan Rumsey Australian National University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/123198356 2 A01 01 JB code 305198357 Lila San Roque San Roque, Lila Lila San Roque Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/305198357 3 A01 01 JB code 493198371 Bambi B. Schieffelin Schieffelin, Bambi B. Bambi B. Schieffelin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/493198371 01 eng 03 00

In this chapter we present material on the acquisition of ergative marking on noun phrases in three languages of Papua New Guinea: Kaluli, Ku Waru, and Duna. The expression of ergativity in all the languages is broadly similar, but sensitive to language-specific features, and this pattern of similarity and difference is reflected in the available acquisition data. Children acquire adult-like ergative marking at about the same pace, reaching similar levels of mastery by 3;00 despite considerable differences in morphological complexity of ergative marking among the languages. What may be more important – as a factor in accounting for the relative uniformity of acquisition in this respect – are the similarities in patterns of interactional scaffolding that emerge from a comparison of the three cases.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.07sto 06 10.1075/tilar.9.07sto 183 208 26 Article 7 01 04 The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang 1 A01 01 JB code 803198359 Sabine Stoll Stoll, Sabine Sabine Stoll University of Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/803198359 2 A01 01 JB code 25198360 Balthasar Bickel Bickel, Balthasar Balthasar Bickel University of Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/25198360 01 eng 03 00

The acquisition of ergative marking in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) seems challenging: the marker covers several functions but is rare in discourse because of NP ellipsis and syntactic constraints. Based on a longitudinal corpus of four children, we find that children master the ergative only after age 4. Earlier usage tends to be limited to restricted lexical environments, and for one child also slightly biased to the agent function (which is the most frequent function). In addition we find a linear increase in spontaneous usage, accompanied by a decrease of usages where the child models her usage on an immediately preceding usage by an adult. This suggests that ergative acquisition chiefly relies on imitating and extracting input patterns and less on exploring generalizations.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.08nar 06 10.1075/tilar.9.08nar 209 238 30 Article 8 01 04 Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech 1 A01 01 JB code 303198361 Bhuvana Narasimhan Narasimhan, Bhuvana Bhuvana Narasimhan University of Colorado, Boulder 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/303198361 01 eng 03 00

In the split-ergative pattern of case-marking in Hindi, the A-role argument typically receives ergative marking with verbs that have perfective inflection. Longitudinal data from three children acquiring Hindi (ranging in age between 1;5–3;2) and their caregivers reveal that ergative case-marking is produced infrequently. Since ellipsis of A-role arguments is rampant and children and adults rarely talk about completed events in the past, the conditions requiring the production of ergative case do not often occur. Nevertheless, children acquire the split-ergative case-marking system with little difficulty. In doing so, they may rely on multiple probabilistic cues to verb transitivity and grammatical aspect in the input: the perfective morpheme, the presence of overt O-role arguments, and the use of specific light verbs.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.09mah 06 10.1075/tilar.9.09mah 239 270 32 Article 9 01 04 The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish 1 A01 01 JB code 711198362 Laura J. Mahalingappa Mahalingappa, Laura J. Laura J. Mahalingappa Duquesne University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/711198362 01 eng 03 00

This study examines the acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish, a language undergoing a shift in its case marking system, resulting in variable and inconsistent input to children. Data include naturalistic speech samples from a 12-month period from children (n = 12) from three age groups, 1;6, 2;6, and 3;6, and their caregivers (n = 41) and results from an Agent-Patient test. Descriptive and statistical analyses focus on adult patterns and children’s production at different ages. Results suggest that there are variable patterns in how adults use case. The children first use ergative case as early as 2;0 and show evidence of use of case and verbal agreement features productively repeated by 2;6. At these early ages, children use similar patterns to caregivers.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.10bro 06 10.1075/tilar.9.10bro 271 306 36 Article 10 01 04 The acquisition of agreement in four cMayan languages The acquisition of agreement in four 
Mayan languages 1 A01 01 JB code 971198363 Penelope Brown Brown, Penelope Penelope Brown Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/971198363 2 A01 01 JB code 64198364 Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara Barbara Pfeiler National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mérida 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/64198364 3 A01 01 JB code 355198365 Lourdes de León León, Lourdes de Lourdes de León CIESAS, Mexico 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/355198365 4 A01 01 JB code 434198366 Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton Clifton Pye University of Kansas 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/434198366 01 eng 03 00

This paper presents results of a comparative project documenting the development of verbal agreement inflections in children learning four different Mayan languages: K’iche’, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek. These languages have similar inflectional paradigms: they have a generally agglutinative morphology, with transitive verbs obligatorily marked with separate cross-referencing inflections for the two core arguments (‘ergative’ and ‘absolutive’). Verbs are also inflected for aspect and mood, and they carry a ‘status suffix’ which generally marks verb transitivity and mood. At a more detailed level, the four languages differ strikingly in the realization of cross-reference marking. For each language, we examined longitudinal language production data from two children at around 2;0, 2;6, 3;0, and 3;6 years of age. We relate differences in the acquisition patterns of verbal morphology in the languages to (1) the placement of affixes, (2) phonological and prosodic prominence, (3) language-specific constraints on the various forms of the affixes, and (4) consistent vs. split ergativity, and conclude that prosodic salience accounts provide the best explanation for the acquisition patterns in these four languages.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.11pye 06 10.1075/tilar.9.11pye 307 336 30 Article 11 01 04 The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q'anjob'al and Yucatec The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec 1 A01 01 JB code 862198367 Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton Clifton Pye University of Kansas 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/862198367 2 A01 01 JB code 2198368 Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara Barbara Pfeiler CEPHCIS-UNAM, Mérida 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/2198368 3 A01 01 JB code 212198369 Pedro Mateo Pedro Mateo Pedro, Pedro Pedro Mateo Pedro Universidad Rafael Landivar 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/212198369 01 eng 03 00

Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses. The languages also make changes to transitive verbs in the same aspectless contexts. We evaluate how Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec children acquire the extension of the ergative markers to intransitive verbs and the changes to transitive verbs in aspectless clauses. In each language we analyzed data of three children in the age range of 2;0 to 3;0. Our findings show that: (i) although the three languages have similar patterns of extended ergativity, children are sensitive to language-specific constraints on extended ergativity; (ii) the input frequency does not predict the acquisition of extended ergativity. We conclude that the structure of each language is responsible for the acquisition of extended ergativity.

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The article examines four areas within ergativity that merit further consideration, including with respect to child language acquisition data: (1) syntactic alignment, including in particular the delimitation of semantic alignment from other kinds of alignment with lexical exceptions, and symmetric voice systems; (2) alignment splits, in particular the interpretation of exceptions to generalizations relating to animacy and definiteness; (3) syntactic alignment biases, especially the interpretation of exceptions; and (4) diachronic issues, in particular the decay of ergativity giving rise to idiosyncrasies like horizontal alignment or to conventionalized use of erstwhile ergative morphology.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.03aus 06 10.1075/tilar.9.03aus 35 70 36 Article 3 01 04 Ergativity in child Basque Ergativity in child Basque 1 A01 01 JB code 732198353 Jennifer R. Austin Austin, Jennifer R. Jennifer R. Austin Rutgers University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/732198353 01 eng 03 00

This chapter analyzes the development of ergativity in 20 bilingual and 11 monolingual children learning Basque by comparing their production of ergative case and agreement to their use of absolutive and dative case and verbal inflection. The children produced ergative verbal inflection earlier than ergative case; however, the opposite was true of dative indirect object agreement, which emerged later than dative case. Several potential factors which may influence the course of morphological development in Basque are evaluated, including morphological complexity, phonological difficulty and input frequency.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.04all 06 10.1075/tilar.9.04all 71 106 36 Article 4 01 04 The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut 1 A01 01 JB code 894198370 Shanley E.M. Allen Allen, Shanley E.M. Shanley E.M. Allen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/894198370 01 eng 03 00

One potential challenge for children learning Inuktitut comes from the ergative case marking system, because of the contrast between the ergative system in morphology and the accusative system governing syntax. However, no studies have yet been published focusing on how Inuktitut-speaking children acquire ergativity. In this chapter, we investigate this process using naturalistic spontaneous speech data from four Inuktitut-speaking children aged 2;0–3;6. We find that these children largely avoid producing structures that require ergative morphology. Analysis of caregiver speech and spoken narratives from older children and adults shows that this avoidance occurs regardless of age. We conclude that Inuktitut may be in the process of historical change from an ergative-absolutive system to a nominative-accusative system, and that the children’s language reflects that change.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.05bav 06 10.1075/tilar.9.05bav 107 132 26 Article 5 01 04 The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri 1 A01 01 JB code 575198355 Edith L. Bavin Bavin, Edith L. Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/575198355 01 eng 03 00

Ellipsis of core arguments in Warlpiri reduces the contexts in which children hear ergative case forms. The chapter discusses this and other possible factors that might impact on children’s acquisition of ergative morphology. Two sets of data are discussed. Naturalistic data show that by the age of three years children use ergative case in the appropriate contexts but have not mastered when to use the different allomorphs. At age four there are examples of ergative forms being used appropriately for agreement and instrumental case. The use of ergative morphology was not extended to non-ergative verbs and not restricted to past tense. The second set of data is based on adult and child narratives elicited with two picture books. It illustrates the contexts for using ergative morphology and the variability in whether subjects are included or omitted within and across age groups.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.06rum 06 10.1075/tilar.9.06rum 133 182 50 Article 6 01 04 The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) 1 A01 01 JB code 123198356 Alan Rumsey Rumsey, Alan Alan Rumsey Australian National University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/123198356 2 A01 01 JB code 305198357 Lila San Roque San Roque, Lila Lila San Roque Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/305198357 3 A01 01 JB code 493198371 Bambi B. Schieffelin Schieffelin, Bambi B. Bambi B. Schieffelin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/493198371 01 eng 03 00

In this chapter we present material on the acquisition of ergative marking on noun phrases in three languages of Papua New Guinea: Kaluli, Ku Waru, and Duna. The expression of ergativity in all the languages is broadly similar, but sensitive to language-specific features, and this pattern of similarity and difference is reflected in the available acquisition data. Children acquire adult-like ergative marking at about the same pace, reaching similar levels of mastery by 3;00 despite considerable differences in morphological complexity of ergative marking among the languages. What may be more important – as a factor in accounting for the relative uniformity of acquisition in this respect – are the similarities in patterns of interactional scaffolding that emerge from a comparison of the three cases.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.07sto 06 10.1075/tilar.9.07sto 183 208 26 Article 7 01 04 The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang 1 A01 01 JB code 803198359 Sabine Stoll Stoll, Sabine Sabine Stoll University of Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/803198359 2 A01 01 JB code 25198360 Balthasar Bickel Bickel, Balthasar Balthasar Bickel University of Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/25198360 01 eng 03 00

The acquisition of ergative marking in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) seems challenging: the marker covers several functions but is rare in discourse because of NP ellipsis and syntactic constraints. Based on a longitudinal corpus of four children, we find that children master the ergative only after age 4. Earlier usage tends to be limited to restricted lexical environments, and for one child also slightly biased to the agent function (which is the most frequent function). In addition we find a linear increase in spontaneous usage, accompanied by a decrease of usages where the child models her usage on an immediately preceding usage by an adult. This suggests that ergative acquisition chiefly relies on imitating and extracting input patterns and less on exploring generalizations.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.08nar 06 10.1075/tilar.9.08nar 209 238 30 Article 8 01 04 Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech 1 A01 01 JB code 303198361 Bhuvana Narasimhan Narasimhan, Bhuvana Bhuvana Narasimhan University of Colorado, Boulder 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/303198361 01 eng 03 00

In the split-ergative pattern of case-marking in Hindi, the A-role argument typically receives ergative marking with verbs that have perfective inflection. Longitudinal data from three children acquiring Hindi (ranging in age between 1;5–3;2) and their caregivers reveal that ergative case-marking is produced infrequently. Since ellipsis of A-role arguments is rampant and children and adults rarely talk about completed events in the past, the conditions requiring the production of ergative case do not often occur. Nevertheless, children acquire the split-ergative case-marking system with little difficulty. In doing so, they may rely on multiple probabilistic cues to verb transitivity and grammatical aspect in the input: the perfective morpheme, the presence of overt O-role arguments, and the use of specific light verbs.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.09mah 06 10.1075/tilar.9.09mah 239 270 32 Article 9 01 04 The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish 1 A01 01 JB code 711198362 Laura J. Mahalingappa Mahalingappa, Laura J. Laura J. Mahalingappa Duquesne University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/711198362 01 eng 03 00

This study examines the acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish, a language undergoing a shift in its case marking system, resulting in variable and inconsistent input to children. Data include naturalistic speech samples from a 12-month period from children (n = 12) from three age groups, 1;6, 2;6, and 3;6, and their caregivers (n = 41) and results from an Agent-Patient test. Descriptive and statistical analyses focus on adult patterns and children’s production at different ages. Results suggest that there are variable patterns in how adults use case. The children first use ergative case as early as 2;0 and show evidence of use of case and verbal agreement features productively repeated by 2;6. At these early ages, children use similar patterns to caregivers.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.10bro 06 10.1075/tilar.9.10bro 271 306 36 Article 10 01 04 The acquisition of agreement in four cMayan languages The acquisition of agreement in four 
Mayan languages 1 A01 01 JB code 971198363 Penelope Brown Brown, Penelope Penelope Brown Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/971198363 2 A01 01 JB code 64198364 Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara Barbara Pfeiler National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mérida 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/64198364 3 A01 01 JB code 355198365 Lourdes de León León, Lourdes de Lourdes de León CIESAS, Mexico 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/355198365 4 A01 01 JB code 434198366 Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton Clifton Pye University of Kansas 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/434198366 01 eng 03 00

This paper presents results of a comparative project documenting the development of verbal agreement inflections in children learning four different Mayan languages: K’iche’, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek. These languages have similar inflectional paradigms: they have a generally agglutinative morphology, with transitive verbs obligatorily marked with separate cross-referencing inflections for the two core arguments (‘ergative’ and ‘absolutive’). Verbs are also inflected for aspect and mood, and they carry a ‘status suffix’ which generally marks verb transitivity and mood. At a more detailed level, the four languages differ strikingly in the realization of cross-reference marking. For each language, we examined longitudinal language production data from two children at around 2;0, 2;6, 3;0, and 3;6 years of age. We relate differences in the acquisition patterns of verbal morphology in the languages to (1) the placement of affixes, (2) phonological and prosodic prominence, (3) language-specific constraints on the various forms of the affixes, and (4) consistent vs. split ergativity, and conclude that prosodic salience accounts provide the best explanation for the acquisition patterns in these four languages.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.11pye 06 10.1075/tilar.9.11pye 307 336 30 Article 11 01 04 The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q'anjob'al and Yucatec The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec 1 A01 01 JB code 862198367 Clifton Pye Pye, Clifton Clifton Pye University of Kansas 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/862198367 2 A01 01 JB code 2198368 Barbara Pfeiler Pfeiler, Barbara Barbara Pfeiler CEPHCIS-UNAM, Mérida 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/2198368 3 A01 01 JB code 212198369 Pedro Mateo Pedro Mateo Pedro, Pedro Pedro Mateo Pedro Universidad Rafael Landivar 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/212198369 01 eng 03 00

Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses. The languages also make changes to transitive verbs in the same aspectless contexts. We evaluate how Mam, Q’anjob’al and Yucatec children acquire the extension of the ergative markers to intransitive verbs and the changes to transitive verbs in aspectless clauses. In each language we analyzed data of three children in the age range of 2;0 to 3;0. Our findings show that: (i) although the three languages have similar patterns of extended ergativity, children are sensitive to language-specific constraints on extended ergativity; (ii) the input frequency does not predict the acquisition of extended ergativity. We conclude that the structure of each language is responsible for the acquisition of extended ergativity.

01 01 JB code tilar.9.12ind 06 10.1075/tilar.9.12ind 337 342 6 Miscellaneous 12 01 04 Index Index 01 eng
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