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Finiteness in early child Dutch *.
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Finiteness is a property of the functional-category system in Dutch. In this article, it will be claimed that in early child Dutch finiteness is not yet part of the children's productive grammatical system. In utterances in which adults would use a finite verb, children regularly produce infinitives. Examples from a corpus of diary data collected from the present author's two children are oppe nek zitte `on the neck sit' (Jasmijn 1;10), poes bal hebbe `kitty bal...
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Finiteness in early child Dutch *.
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract Finiteness is a property of the functional-category system in Dutch. In this article, it will be claimed that in early child Dutch finiteness is not yet part of the children's productive grammatical system. In utterances in which adults would use a finite verb, children regularly produce
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FAR AWAY, LIVING LIKE A LOCAL; Service pairs visitors with residents happy to give tips and tours
The Boston Globe
; AMSTERDAM Huub rolled his toy truck across the table and smiled mischievously at us, two strangers who had joined his family for dinner on their houseboat. Nearly 2, he's just learning to speak Dutch, a language we don't know. But as his dad, Daan Stoelinga, served a starter course of salmon fume
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Aspects of Vietnamese clausal structure: separating tense from assertion *.
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; ... in (48): (48) a. Co tin tuc quan trong (ma) lam moi nguoi CO news important REL make every person xuc dong. excited 'There is such important news as to make everyone excited.' b. Khong co nhieu xe lua hoat ... Matsuo, Tuong Hung Nguyen, Hoa Pham, Jeanne Tieu, and Thuan Tran. For important revisions to the ...
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Computational complexity and the acquisition of functional categories by French-speaking children with SLI (1).(specific language impairment)
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract Previous research conducted with French-speaking normally developing children and children with specific language impairment has shown a striking asymmetry between present and past tense production--the passe compose--in favor of the present. Based on specific assumptions about the nature
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Aspectual forms in Cantonese children with specific language impairment *.
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract Recent accounts of morphological deficits in children with specific language impairment contrast grammar-deficit explanations, for difficulties these children have with finite verb morphology, with accounts that appeal to processing limitations. Cross-linguistic evaluations of these
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Completive aspect, emotion, and the dynamic eventive: the case of Korean V-a/e pelita, Japanese V-te shimau, and Spanish se (1).
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract This paper examines the auxiliary verb constructions V-a/e pelita in Korean and V-te shimau in Japanese as markers of both completive aspect and speaker stance. These constructions are, for the most part, grammatically optional in their respective languages. When they occur, they generally
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Intervocalic -v- deletion in Tamil: evidence for aspect as a morphological category.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; 1. LEXICAL PHONOLOGY AND TAMIL 1.1. Introduction Tamil possesses a rule of intervocalic -v- deletion that has eluded systematic attempts at formulation because of the diverse morphological and syntactic environments in which it occurs. In a previous analysis (Schiffman 1979: 6) I have stated the
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Translations as evidence for semantics: an illustration (1).
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; ... can be inferred. Below are a few more examples to enable the reader to empathize with this characterization. (4) And the main news again. The defence secretary has announced further cuts to Britain's armed forces, including the cancellation of a nuclear ... Studies, Lund 4-5 March 1994. Lund: Lund University Press ... .
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Finiteness and children with specific language impairment: an exploratory study *.
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are well known for their difficulties in mastering the inflectional paradigms; in the case of learning German they also have problems with the appropriate verb position, in particular with the verb in second position. This paper explores the
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When finiteness gets marked: the relation between morphosyntactic development and use of scopal items in adult language acquisition (1).(French and English as a second language)
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract This paper investigates the acquisition of scope in L2 English and French, using longitudinal data from five informants from the ESF database (Feldweg 1993). The scopal items analyzed are negation and additive, restrictive, and temporal items. These items are found to be acquired in a
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