Minimum of English Grammar: An Introduction to Feature Theory With a Special Note on the Nature of Early Child Grammars of English - Softcover

Galasso, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934269417 ISBN 13: 9781934269411

Publisher: University Readers, 2009

Synopsis

This handbook essentially delivers two books in one. On one hand, linguistic informed phenomena are presented to the reader in general terms---topics related to Child Language Acquisition, Language Impairment, as well as the Brain-Language Corollary. On the other hand, the handbook presents as its fundamental core the kind of theoretical syntax that has come to be regarded amongst Chomskyan linguists.

"I like the approach of this text. It is cutting edge, practical, and integrated. There is also implied interdisciplinarity here with psychology and biology, which students will find exciting. ... I think students, especially those preparing to teach, would find this approach interesting and helpful. ...My main impression when I first glimpsed the text was that it looks highly technical, When you start reading, however, it's engaging."---Gwen Ladd Hackler Southern Nazarene University

"Nothing like this grammar has crossed my desk in fifteen years as a college professor. ...His prose is interesting and readable. ...My interest was immediately piqued by the sections on Early Child Grammars, Shakespearian Grammar, and the English Sound System."---Anonymous

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Galasso is on both the English and Linguistics Faculty at California State University, Northridge and serves as an Adjunct Faculty of Linguistics at California State University, Long Beach. He has written one book on Child Language Acquisition, The Acquisition of Functional Categories (IULC Publications, 2003) and has written several papers on topics related to early child syntax. He is often invited to lecture as well as to edit chapters of textbooks related to linguistics and child language acquisition. Joseph Galasso holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Essex (1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: University Readers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1934269417
• ISBN 13: 9781934269411
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 578