The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages: 41 (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027253013 ISBN 13: 9789027253019

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006

Synopsis

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturation of general principles universal to all languages. They all depart from the view that language acquisition can be explained in terms of learning language specific rules, constraints or structures. The different parts into which this volume is organized reflect different approaches that current research has offered, which deal with issues of development of reflexive pronouns, determiners, clitics, verbs, auxiliaries, inflection, wh-movement, ressumptive pronouns, topic and focus, mood, the syntax/discourse interface, and null arguments.

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Torrens and Escobar (Psycholinguistic Institute, Madrid) present a selection of papers from a workshop on first and second language acquisition held in Madrid in September 2004, addressing a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages. All share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory, an

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027253013
• ISBN 13: 9789027253019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Torrens Vincent, Escobar Linda