This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the b
The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure: Animacy and Thematic Alignment
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 338
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Edition
- draft
- Category
- Library
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