Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition : : A Cross-Linguistic Perspective / / ed. by Dagmar Bittner, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Marianne Kilani-Schoch.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aguirre, Carmen,; Aksu-Κοç, Ayhan,; Bittner, Dagmar,; Christofidou, Anastasia,; DressLer, Wolfgang U.,; Gagarina, Natalia,; Gillis, Steven,; Gülzow, Insa,; Katičić, Antigone,; Ketrez, F. Nihan,; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne,; Klampfer, Sabine,; Laalo, Klaus,; Noccetti, Sabrina,; Pfeiler, Barbara,; Stephany, Ursula,; Wójcik, Paweł,
• HerausgeberIn: Bittner, Dagmar,; Dressler, Wolfgang U.,; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; Num. figs.

The volume deals with the emergence of verb morphology in children during their second and early third year of life from a cross-linguistic perspective. It covers 15 contributions - each analysing one single language - based on parallel longitudinal investigations of children with parallel methodology and macrostructure in representation. The main question addressed is: How do children detect morphology and construct first subsystems of verbal inflection? The very focus lies on the transition from a premorphological phase to a protomorphological phase. The main proposal consists in the concept of miniparadigms and of their relation to morpho-syntactic developments in early first-language acquisition.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- Specific terms used in common by the contributors to the present volume -- Early verb development in one Spanish-speaking child -- Early verbal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of inflections -- The emergence of verb inflection in two German speaking children -- Early phases in the development of Greek verb inflection -- The early verb development and demarcation of stages in three Russian-speaking children -- A case study of the early acquisition of verbs in Dutch -- Early development of verbal morphology in an English-speaking child -- Early verb development in one Croatian-speaking child -- Early verb inflection in French: An investigation of two corpora -- Emergence of verb paradigms in one Austrian child -- Early verb development in Finnish: A preliminary approach to miniparadigms -- Acquisition of verb morphology in Italian: A case study -- Early acquisition of the verbal complex in Yucatec Maya -- Early verb inflection in Lithuanian -- Subject index