Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument

📁 Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability

✍ Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized. The

Argument structure and grammatical relat

📁 Argument structure and grammatical relations : a crosslinguistic typology

✍ Suihkonen, Pirkko; Comrie, Bernard; Solovʹev, Valeriĭ 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 John Benjamins 🌐 English

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transiti

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisit

📁 Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

✍ Steven Pinker 📂 Library 📅 1989 🏛 The Mit Press 🌐 English

When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine t

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisit

📁 Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

✍ Steven Pinker 📂 Library 📅 1991 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 English

When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine t

Learnability and cognition : the acquisi

📁 Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure

✍ Pinker, Steven 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 English

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisit

📁 Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

✍ Steven Pinker 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn the