Question on Syntactic Bootstrapping

[bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de]

Dear all, 

I have a question on the Syntactic Bootstrapping approach which I surely 
could clarify myself by checking the relevant literature, but for reasons of 
time, I thought I could ask you, in the hope some of you out there have the 
answer at hand and/or can indicate some references where I can find it. 

The question is: Is the supposition right that the Syntactic Bootstrapping 
hypothesis posits unlearned (innate) syntactic-semantic correlations and 
mappings (e.g., transitivity --> causality), just as Semantic Bootstrapping 
does, only the other way round (e.g., subject <-- agent)? Or is it the case 
that in Synt. Boot. these categories are learned? Or yet is it the case that 
this issue is viewed differently by proponents of Synt. Boot? Or
? 

Thank you very much in advance! 

Best
Susanna 

 

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Susanna Bartsch
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bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de
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und Universalienforschung (ZAS)
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