Dummy auxiliaries in first and second language acquisition / edited by Elma Blom, Ineke van de Craats, Josje Verhagen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blom, Elma, 1972- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Series:

Studies on language acquisition ; 49.

Studies on language acquisition, 1861-4248 ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Auxiliaries.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dummy auxiliaries are seemingly superfluous words that appear in learner varieties across languages. This volume is an up-to-date overview of research on dummy auxiliaries with contributions covering English, Dutch, German, French, Cypriot-Greek, first and second language acquisition, and specific language impairment as well as dialectal variation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Dummy auxiliaries in monolingual first language acquisition

Superfluous 'do' and comparison of spell-outs / Carson T. Schütze

Dummy auxiliaries in Dutch first language acquisition / Shalom Zuckerman

Semantic dummy verbs in child Dutch / Bart Hollebrandse, Margreet van Koert and Angeliek van Hout

There is a dummy 'is' in early first language acquisition / Manuela Julien, Ineke van de Craats and Roeland van Hout

Lightverbhood in child language : Evidence from Cypriot Greek / Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Evelina Leivada

Dummy auxiliaries in simultaneous and successive child bilingualism

Reflections on dummy 'do' in child language and syntactic theory / Ute Bohnacker

Dummy verbs in first and second language acquisition in German / Solveig Chilla, Stefanie Haberzettl and Nadja Wulff

Dummy auxiliaries in children with SLI : a study on Dutch, in monolinguals and bilinguals / Jan de Jong, Elma Blom and Antje Orgassa

Dummy auxiliaries in adult second language acquisition

From dummy auxiliary to auxiliary in Moroccan adult learners' production and comprehension of Dutch / Josje Verhagen

Dummy verbs and the acquisition of verb raising in L2 German and French / Sarah Schimke

Broader perspectives on dummy auxiliaries

Dummies and auxiliaries in the acquisition of LI and L2 Dutch / Peter Jordens

Child use of auxiliary + infinitive in Dutch : Acquisition device or reflection of the input / Leonie Cornips

Dummy auxiliaries in Dutch dialects, LI and L2 acquisition / Sjef Barbiers

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1614513473

9781614513476

Publisher Number:

99960382278

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.