Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : : A case study of German child language / / Angelika Wittek.
Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- i-iv
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn’t
- Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis
- Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate
- Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning
- Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis
- Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children’s semantic representations of change-of-state verbs
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- Author index