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Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : a case study of German child language / by Angelika Wittek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wittek, Angelika, 1965-
- Series:
- Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]
- Studies on language acquisition ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition--Case studies.
- Language acquisition.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- German language--Acquisition--Case studies.
- German language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn't
- Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis
- Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate
- Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning
- Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis
- Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children's semantic representations of change-of-state verbs
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- Author index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110907988
- 3110907984
- OCLC:
- 979735368
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