The Acquisition of Relative Clauses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Acquisition of Relative Clauses write by Evan Kidd. This book was released on 2011. The Acquisition of Relative Clauses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse range of theoretical approaches and languages are bought to bear on the acquisition of this construction type, making the volume unique in its coverage. The volume will appeal to students and scholars whose interest lies in the acquisition and processing of syntax with a particular focus on complex sentences in crosslinguistic and functionalist perspective.
The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in English
The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in English write by Amy Louise Sheldon. This book was released on 1974. The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas write by Bernard Comrie. This book was released on 2012. Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are similar to main or independent clauses. Languages of the Americas, with their rich genetic diversity, have all been under the influence of European languages, whether Spanish, English or Portuguese, a situation that may be expected to have influenced their grammatical patterns. The present volume focuses on two tasks: The first deals with the discussion of functional principles related to relative clause formation: diachrony and paths of grammaticalization, simplicity vs. complexity, and formalization of rules to capture semantic-syntactic correlations. The second provides a typological overview of relative clauses in nine different languages going from north to south in the Americas.
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Acquisition of Complex Sentences write by Holger Diessel. This book was released on 2004-09-02. The Acquisition of Complex Sentences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows that the development of complex sentences originates from simple non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the social-cognitive development of the child.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
The Syntax of Relative Clauses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syntax of Relative Clauses write by Artemis Alexiadou. This book was released on 2000-07-15. The Syntax of Relative Clauses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne’s (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. The editors provide a thorough introduction of these proposals, their background and motivations, arguments for and against. There are detailed studies in the syntax and the semantics of relative clauses constructions in Latin, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Hindi, (Old) English, Old High German, (dialects of) Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, and Japanese. The book should be of interest to any linguist working within generative syntax.
