Pronouns and clitics in early language / edited by María Pilar Larrañaga, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Larrañaga, María Pilar.

Guijarro Fuentes, Pedro.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar 108

Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronoun.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on...

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Clitics: to be or not to be / Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro / Larrañaga, Pilar

Collecting data and measuring competence / Larrañaga, María Pilar / Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro

On the prosodic structure of articles in L1 acquisition of Spanish / Lleó, Conxita

Third person clitic production and omission in Romance SLI / Gavarró, Anna

Which category replaces an omitted clitic? The case of European Portuguese / Costa, João / Lobo, Maria / Silva, Carolina

(A)symmetries in the production of object clitics by Romanian children / Coene, Martine / Avram, Larisa

Clitics in the acquisition of inalienable possession in French / Schmitz, Katrin

Children's Acquisition of Subject Markers in isiXhosa / Smouse, Mantoa / Gxilishe, Sandile / de Villiers, Jill G. / de Villiers, Peter A.

The Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in Swahili / Deen, Kamil

Endocliticization and the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis: Insights from Degema / Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel

Afterword: On clitic omission and the acquisition of subject clitic pronouns / Cardinaletti, Anna

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613940148

9781283627696

1283627698

9783110238815

3110238810

OCLC:

961609354