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Publication details [#8933]

Slobin, Dan I. 1981. The origins of grammatical encoding of events. In Deutsch, Werner, ed. The child's construction of language. Academic Press. pp. 185–199.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

event | prototype | syntax1, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

The encoding of transitive events is studied to show that the learning of grammar involves attention to both prototypical situations in the world of reference and canonical forms in the world of language. Empirical evidence from several languages is adduced.

Reprints

Hopper, Paul J. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1982. In Hopper, Paul J. and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Syntax and semantics 15: Studies in transitivity. Academic Press. pp. 409–422.