Language acquisition studies in generative grammar : papers in honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991 GLOW workshops / / edited by Teun Hoekstra, Bonnie D. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Language acquisition & language disorders, v. 8
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Wexler, Kenneth.; Hoekstra, Teun.; Schwartz, Bonnie D.; ProQuest (Firm); GLOW Conference (14th : 1991 : Leiden University)
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: xii, 401 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Based on papers presented at workshops on syntactic acquisition organized as part of the 14th GLOW Conference which was held Mar. 1991, Leiden University.

Table of Contents

Introduction : on the initial stages of language acquisition / Teun Hoekstra & Bonnie Schwartz -- VP, null arguments, and COMP projections / Nina Hyams -- Crosslinguistic evidence for functional projections in early child grammar / Vivian Deprez & Amy Pierce -- The seeds of structure : a syntactic analysis of the acquisition of case marking / Harald Clahsen, Sonja Eisenbeiss & Anne Vainikka -- From adjunct to head / Teun Hoekstra & Peter Jordens -- Early null subjects and root null subjects / Luigi Rizzi -- Asking questions without CPs? : on the acquisition of root wh-questions in Bernese Swiss German and Standard German / Zvi Penner -- Successful cyclic movement / Rosalind Thornton & Stephen Crain -- Early acquisition of scrambling in Japanese / Yukio Otsu -- Direct access to X'-theory : evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German / Anne Vainikka & Martha Young-Scholten -- Word order and nominative case in non-native language acquisition : a longitudinal study of (L1 Turkish) German interlanguage / Bonnie D. Schwartz & Rex A. Sprouse -- Optionality and the initial state in L2 development / Lynn Eubank.