Title: The Acquisition of verb placement : functional categories and V2 phenomena in language acquisition /
Authors: Meisel, Jürgen M.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Language acquisition.; Grammar, Comparative and general Verb.; Functionalism (Linguistics)
Contents: Introduction : functional categories and verb placement in language development / Jürgen M. Meisel -- The acquisition of the morphosyntax of finite verbs in English / Andrew Radford -- Functional categories and early Swedish / Christer Platzack -- Accessing functional categories in Sesotho : interactions at the morpho-syntax interface / Katherine Demuth -- Finiteness and verb placement in early child grammars : evidence from simultaneous acquisition of French and German in bilinguals / Jürgen M. Meisel and Natascha Müller -- Language acquisition and competing linguistic representations : the child as arbiter / Ira Gawlitzek-Maiwald, Rosemarie Tracy and Agnes Fritzenschaft -- The acquisition of agreement morphology and its syntactic consequences : new evidence on German child language from the Simone-Corpus / Harald Clahsen and Martina Penke.