Language creation and language change : creolization, diachrony, and development / edited by Michel DeGraff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeGraff, Michel.

Series:

Learning, development, and conceptual change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic change.

Creole dialects.

Language acquisition.

Generative grammar.

Languages in contact.

Sign language.

Physical Description:

x, 573 pages ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.

Summary:

"Research on creolization, language change over time, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers - and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Ch. 1 Creolization, Language Change, and Language Acquisition: A Prolegomenon (starting p. 1) / Michel DeGraff

Ch. 2 How to Acquire Language without Positive Evidence: What Acquisitionists Can Learn from Creoles (starting p. 49) / Derek Bickerton

Ch. 3 Acquisition of Wh-Questions in Mauritian Creole (starting p. 75) / Dany Adone, Anne Vainikka

Ch. 4 On the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: Hints from Tazie (starting p. 95) / Salikoko S. Mufwene

Ch. 5 Language Acquisition and Creolization (starting p. 129) / John S. Lumsden

Ch. 6 Reduced Input in the Acquisition of Signed Languages: Contributions to the Study of Creolization (starting p. 161) / Elissa L. Newport

Ch. 7 Creation through Contact: Sign Language Emergence and Sign Language Change in Nicaragua (starting p. 179) / Judy Kegl, Ann Senghas, Marie Coppola

Ch. 8 Functional Categories and Parameter Setting in the Second-Language Acquisition of Irish in Early Childhood (starting p. 239) / Alison Henry, Denise Tangney

Ch. 9 An Explanation for the Decline of Null Pronouns in Certain Germanic and Romance Languages (starting p. 257) / Rex A. Sprouse, Barbara S. Vance

Ch. 10 Verb Movement and Markedness (starting p. 287) / Ian Roberts

Ch. 11 Double-Object Constructions in the Creole Languages: Development and Acquisition (starting p. 329) / Adrienne Bruyn, Pieter Muysken, Maaike Verrips

Ch. 12 The Roots of Negative Concord in French and French-Lexicon Creoles (starting p. 375) / Viviane Deprez

Ch. 13 Creoles and Cues (starting p. 431) / David Lightfoot

Ch. 14 Broadening the Empirical Basis of Universal Grammar Models: A Commentary (starting p. 453) / Luigi Rizzi

Ch. 15 Creolization, Language Change, and Language Acquisition: An Epilogue (starting p. 473 Michel DeGraff

Contributors (starting p. 545)

Index (starting p. 547)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262541262

9780262541268

0262041685

9780262041683

OCLC:

47949356