Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure
By: [edited by] Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown.
Contributors: Bowerman, Melissa.; Brown, Penelope.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780805841947; 9781410616456
Subjects: Language acquisition.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.; Semantics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown; value: Verb meaning and verb syntax : cross-linguistic puzzles for language learners; value: A person, a place, or a thing? whorfian consequences of syntactic bootstrapping in Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger; value: The pitfalls of getting from here to there : bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event coding in Yukatek Mayan / Jürgen Bohnemeyer; value: Making sense of complex verbs: on the semantics and argument structure of closed-class verbs and coverbs in jaminjung / Eva Schultze-Berndt; value: Figure-ground indeterminacy in descriptions of spatial relations : a construction grammar account / Sotaro Kita; value: Learning verbs without boots and straps? the problem of 'give' in Saliba / Anna Margetts; value: Participants present and absent : argument ellipsis and verb learning; value: Same argument structure, different meanings : learning "put" and "look" in Arrernte / David Wilkins; value: Verb specificity and argument realization in Tzeltal child language / Penelope Brown; value: Interacting pragmatic influences on children's argument realization / Shanley E.M. Allen; value: Transitivity, intransitivity, and their associated meanings : a complex work-space for learnability; value: Intransitive verbs in Ewe and the unaccusativity hypothesis / James Essegbey; value: He died old dying to be dead right: transitivity and semantic shifts of "die" in Ewe in crosslinguistic perspective / Felix Ameka; value: Acquiring telicity cross-linguistically : on the acquisition of telicity entailments associated with transitivity / Angeliekan Hout; value: The acquisition of the English causative alternation / Melissa Bowerman and William Croft; value: What adverbs have to do with learning the meaning of verbs / Angelika Wittek; value: Event realization in Tamil / Eric Pederson.