The Acquisition of Verb Placement : Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition

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The twelve original contributions in this volume all focus on the question of whether developing grammars contain, at each stage of language acquisition, the full range of functional categories such as INFL, AGR, or COMP. The crucal evidence examined is the placement of verbs, especially in verb-second constructions. Since the position of verbal elements depends in the finiteness distinction, viz. on the presence of agreement and tense markings, the development of these phenomena is studied as well. Although there is consensus among the authors of the volume that grammars in the course of language acquisition conform at each stage to the principles of universal grammar, they disagree on whether the full repertoire of functional categories is available from early on or whether some are implemented only later. The studies presented here investigate monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition and, in one case, adult second language acquisition. The languages studied are Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Sesotho, and Swedish.

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Introduction: Functional Categories and Verb Placement in Language Development	p. 1
The Acquisition of the Morphosyntax of Finite Verbs in English	p. 23
Functional Categories and Early Swedish	p. 63
Accessing Functional Categories in Sesotho: Interactions at the Morpho-Syntax Interface	p. 83
Finiteness and Verb Placement in Early Child Grammars: Evidence from Simultaneous Acquisition of French and German in Bilinguals	p. 109
Language Acquisition and Competing Linguistic Representations: the Child as Arbiter	p. 139
The Acquisition of Agreement Morphology and its Syntactic Consequences: New Evidence on German Child Language from the Simone-Corpus	p. 181
Verb Movement, Agreement, and Tense in L2 Acquisition	p. 225
The Ban on Parameter Resetting, Default Mechanisms, and the Acquisition of V2 in Bernese Swiss German	p. 245
Routes to Verb Placenment in Early German and French: The Independence of Finiteness and Agreement	p. 283
From the Initial State to V2: Acquisition Principles in Action	p. 333
The Genesis of Clausal Structure	p. 371
Categories of First Syntax: Be, Be+ing, and Nothingness	p. 401
On the Acquisition of Functional Categories: A General Commentary	p. 423
Index	p. 445
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