Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability

Crosslinguistic  Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability
Author: Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Publication date: 2007
ISBN: 0805841946
Number of pages: 384
Format / Quality: rar -> pdf
Size: 5.02 MB

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Much contemporary work in linguistics and psychology assumes that argument structure is strongly constrained by a set of universal principles, and that these principles are innate, providing children with certain bootstrapping strategies that help them hone in on basic aspects of the syntax and