Semantics in acquisition
By: edited by Veerle van Geenhoven.
Contributors: Van Geenhoven, Veerle, 1965-; Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Series: Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics -- v. 35
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781402085130; 9781402044854
Subjects: Semantics -- Congresses; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses; Language acquisition -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other.
Notes: Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held Spring 2000, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Originally published: Dordrecht : Springer, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.