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Cross-Linguistic Transfer and Second Language Learnability
There is evidence that suggests L2 learning also has access to UG. The main argument lies in the way L1 and L2 learners access UG and the role L2...
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Zweitspracherwerbsforschung
Die Zweitspracherwerbsforschung entwickelte sich während der letzten 50 Jahre zu einer selbstständigen Disziplin, die sich mit der Aneignung von...
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Parallel copying in dislocation copying: evidence from Cantonese
Cantonese exhibits dislocation copying, a phenomenon whereby some syntactic material in a canonical sentence is repeated after the sentence particle....
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Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, Phonology, Pragmatics and Semantics
This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative linguistics, a valuable “one-stop shop**” opportunity for readers interested in...
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Neg Raising and ellipsis (and related issues) revisited
There have been a variety of arguments over the decades both for and against syntactic Neg Raising (NR). Two recent papers (Jacobson in Linguist Inq...
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Indirectness and Intentions in Metasemantics
This paper argues in favor of an indirect metasemantics for the standard for gradable adjectives. Specifically, it argues that multiple factors work...
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African American Children and Adolescents
This chapter focuses on typical and impaired pragmatic language in African American children and adolescents who speak a language variety called...
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Pragmatic Disorders in the Twenty-First Century
In 40 years, pragmatics has moved from a position of relative obscurity in the study of language disorder to become an area of central interest to...
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Doubling unconditionals and relative sluicing
Doubling unconditionals are exemplified by the Spanish example Venga quien venga, estaré contento ‘Whoever comes, I’ll be happy’ (lit. ‘Comes who...
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Ignorance and concession with superlative modifiers: a cross-linguistic perspective
Superlative modifiers (SMs) are known to demonstrate an ambiguity between an epistemic reading (EPI) conveying speaker ignorance and a concessive...
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Speech Development in Mandarin-Speaking Children
The unique ability to communicate through speech clearly distinguishes human beings from all other animals. Children start to produce their first...
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On the Domain Specificity of Intervention Effects in Children’s Comprehension of Relative Clauses and Coordinate Clauses
InDomain-specificity thisRelative clauses study, linear andCoordinate-clauses hierarchical interventionIntervention effects are considered in...
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Introduction
The articles in this volume investigate various aspects of the word order phenomena in Turkish, a head final, left-branching, ‘free’ word order...
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Introduction
This chapter first gives a historical overview of the importance of Romance linguistics to the development of diachronic and synchronic theory over...
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What Theories, Perspectives, and Approaches Are Used in Study Abroad Research?
In this chapter, we present a discussion of input and output principles that are important to consider when explaining linguistic development. We...
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Stability and attrition in American Norwegian nominals: a view from predicate nouns
This study investigates the extent to which speakers of American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage language spoken in the United States and Canada, use...
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Sociolinguistics: Regional and social varieties of English
Language as a social phenomenon: Similar to pragmatics, the field of sociolinguistics studies language use in real life. It is an illusion to think...
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Towards a Model of the Relation Between Prosodic Structure and Object Displacement in Turkish
This paper looks into the interpretive and focus related properties of the raised and the in-place accusative marked definites and argues that object...
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Understanding the Grammar of Mixed Language
This chapter provides a general overview of the structural approach to code-switching and familiarizes novice readers with key publications in the...