Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages
- The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children
- On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes
- Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan
- Null arguments in monolingual children
- Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition
- A cross-sectional study on the use of 'be' in early Italian
- Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language
- Looking for the universal core of the RI stage
- The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis
- Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop
- The acquisition of A- and A'-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese
- Acquiring long-distance wh-questions in L1 Spanish
- Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh-scope marking in French *
- Acquisition of focus marking in European Portuguese
- Subject pronouns in bilinguals
- Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in l2 acquisition?
- The development of the syntax-information structure interface
- Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter
- Index
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.
Table of contents:
- The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages
- The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children
- On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes
- Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan
- Null arguments in monolingual children
- Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition
- A cross-sectional study on the use of 'be' in early Italian
- Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language
- Looking for the universal core of the RI stage
- The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis
- Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop
- The acquisition of A- and A'-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese
- Acquiring long-distance wh-questions in L1 Spanish
- Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh-scope marking in French *
- Acquisition of focus marking in European Portuguese
- Subject pronouns in bilinguals
- Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in l2 acquisition?
- The development of the syntax-information structure interface
- Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter
- Index