How tolerant is universal grammar?: essays on language learnability and language variation

✍ Scribed by Rosemarie Tracy (editor); Elsa Lattey (editor)

Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten; 309
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Raising Questions: Formal and Functional Aspects of the Acquisition of Wh-Questions in German
Possible Domains for Individual Variation in Early Developmental Stages
Variations on “Variation”: On the Acquisition of Complementizers in German
Learnability Meets Development: The Case of Pro-Drop
A Theory of Null Objects and the Development of a Brazilian Child Grammar
Activating Passives in Child Grammar
Variation in Grammar and First Language Acquisition: A New Concept of Parameter in Universal Grammar
Intermodular Synchronization: On the Role of Morphology in the Normal and Impaired Acquisition of a Verb-Second Language
How Do Children Cope with Variation in the Input? The Case of German Plurals and Compounding
Variation in the Acquisition of German Plural Morphology by Second Language Learners
Inference and Learnability in Second Language Acquisition: Universals vs. Language-Specific Phenomena in the Domain of Idiomatic Expressions
List of Contributors

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