Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure [implications for learnability]

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Weitere Verfasser: Bowerman, Melissa (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Lawrence Erlbaum 2008
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Beschreibung:Introduction / Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown -- Verb meaning and verb syntax : cross-linguistic puzzles for language learners -- A person, a place, or a thing? whorfian consequences of syntactic bootstrapping in Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger -- The pitfalls of getting from here to there : bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event coding in Yukatek Mayan / Jürgen Bohnemeyer -- Making sense of complex verbs: on the semantics and argument structure -- Of closed-class verbs and coverbs in jaminjung / Eva Schultze-Berndt -- Figure-ground indeterminacy in descriptions of space : a construction grammar account / Sotaro Kita -- Learning verbs without boots and straps? the problem of 'give' in Saliba / Anna Margetts -- Participants present and absent : argument ellipsis and verb learning -- Same argument structure, different meanings : learning "put" and "look" in Arrernte / David Wilkins -- Verb specificity and argument realization in Tzeltal child language / Penelope Brown -- Interacting pragmatic influences on children's argument realization / Shanley Allen -- Transitivity, intransitivity, and their associated meanings : a complex work-space for learnability -- Intransitive verbs in Ewe and the unaccusativity hypothesis / James Essegbey -- He died old dying to be dead right: transitivity and semantic shifts of "die" in Ewe in crosslinguistic perspective / Felix Ameka -- Acquiring telicity cross-linguistically : on the acquisition of telicity -- Entailments associated with transitivity / Angeliekan Hout -- Does meaning predict syntactic frames? the acquisition of the English causative alternation / Melissa Bowerman and William Croft -- "And the prince woke sleeping beauty again." what adverbs have to do with learning the meaning of verbs / Angelika Wittek -- Event realization in Tamil / Eric Pederson
Beschreibung:VIII, 370 S.
Bibliographie:Literaturangaben
ISBN:0805841946
9780805841947