Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2002

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2002

Preface finite options: how L1 and L2 learners cope with the acquisition of finiteness (1).
July 1, 2002... The question of how L1 and L2 learners acquire finiteness has attracted considerable attention from linguists and psychologists over the past 20 years. This research is motivated by studies of verbal inflection and verb placement in corpora...

Growing (clausal) roots: all children start out (and may remain) multilingual (1).
July 1, 2002... Abstract This paper is concerned with problems of learnability. It speculates on how learners, with the help of UG and a few common-sense strategies, go about discovering abstract relationships between superficially different structural...

Finiteness in early child Dutch *.
July 1, 2002... Abstract Finiteness is a property of the functional-category system in Dutch. In this article, it will be claimed that in early child Dutch finiteness is not yet part of the children's productive grammatical system. In utterances in which...

The roots of root infinitives: remarks on infinitival main clauses in adult and child language *.
July 1, 2002... Abstract The past decade has produced various theories for explaining why children learning certain languages will often use infinitival utterances. One class of these approaches shares the property that a period in language acquisition is...

Finiteness and children with specific language impairment: an exploratory study *.
July 1, 2002... Abstract Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are well known for their difficulties in mastering the inflectional paradigms; in the case of learning German they also have problems with the appropriate verb position, in...

When finiteness gets marked: the relation between morphosyntactic development and use of scopal items in adult language acquisition (1).(French and English as a second language)
July 1, 2002... Abstract This paper investigates the acquisition of scope in L2 English and French, using longitudinal data from five informants from the ESF database (Feldweg 1993). The scopal items analyzed are negation and additive, restrictive, and...

Topics, assertions, and additive words: how L2 learners get from information structure to target-language syntax *d.(second language learners of German)
July 1, 2002... Abstract The article compares the integration of topic-related additive words at different stages of untutored L2 acquisition. Data stem from an "additive-elicitation task" that was designed in order to capture topic-related additive words...