The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics - Couverture rigide

Schaeffer, Jeannette

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027224900 ISBN 13 : 9789027224903

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2000

Synopsis

This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity Hypothesis. Real time development is explained by the interaction between two different modules of language, namely syntax and pragmatics. Children need to build up knowledge of how the world works, which includes learning that in communicating with someone else, one must realize that speaker and hearer knowledge are always independent. Since the syntactic feature referentiality can only be marked if this (pragmatic) distinction is made, and assuming that certain types of object placement (such as scrambling and clitic placement) are motivated by referentiality, it follows that the relevant syntactic mechanism is dependent on the prior acquisition of a pragmatic distinction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027224900
• ISBN 13: 9789027224903
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible