Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from May 2000

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from May 2000

Introduction: a functional approach to ellipsis(1).
May 1, 2000... The papers in this issue discuss children's ellipsis of arguments, focusing on the interaction of discourse (or usage) with grammar and typology. Over the past years, many of the discussions on argument ellipsis in children's language were...

Where's ellipsis? Whether and why there are missing arguments in Hebrew child language(*).
May 1, 2000... Abstract This paper concerns subject and object ellipsis in Hebrew child language from two perspectives: the conditions that govern subject versus object ellipsis and the distinction between early and late omissions. We propose that in...

A discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument representation in child Inuktitut(*).(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Abstract This paper assesses discourse pragmatics as a potential explanation for the production and omission of arguments in early child language. It employs a set of features that characterize typical situations of informativeness...

On the acquisition of verb argument structure(1).
May 1, 2000... Abstract The present study explores two domains in Scandinavian child language development where the encoding of arguments to verbs shows a variable distribution. The first domain is grammatical subjects in an early phase of development...

Learning word-order constraints under conditions of object ellipsis(*).
May 1, 2000... Abstract It is generally assumed that the nature of the input children hear, when combined with innate capacities for (language) learning, is sufficiently rich for language acquisition to succeed despite the presence of ungrammatical...

Ellipsis in Warlpiri children's narratives: an analysis of frog stories(*).
May 1, 2000... Abstract The paper reports on developmental aspects of the ellipsis of core lexical arguments in Warlpiri children's narratives. The children, aged from four to ten years, each tom a frog story based on Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? (1969)....

Increasing cohesion in narratives: a developmental study of maintaining and reintroducing subjects in French(*).
May 1, 2000... Abstract The informational adequacy of children's referential expressions in narrative texts has received considerable attention in the literature (Warden 1976, 1981; Karmiloff-Smith 1981, 1986; Hickmann 1987, 1991; Bamberg 1987;...