Hierarchy of Two-Place Predicates

[Tom Roeper]

I think children are more likely to omit the prepositions and say things
like:
    I cried stairs/ I'm going beach
even in places where they are called for.  There is some discussion of this
in my book The Prism of Grammar--MIT

Tom Roeper

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Masahiko Minami <mminami at sfsu.edu> wrote:

>   Tasaku Tsunoda proposed a classification of predicates, in various
> versions, and its latest (1985) has been referred to as the hierarchy of
> two-place predicates (‘HTPP’).****
>
> ** **
>
> My understanding of HTPP is as follows:****
>
> ** **
>
> When a two-place predicate R(x,y) is used to describe an event involving
> two participants, usually an agent and a patient, it is of utmost
> importance to avoid ambiguity as to which noun phrase corresponds to the
> first argument x (the agent) and which to the second argument y (the
> patient). For this purpose, case can be used to mark one of the arguments.
> If one argument is case marked, this already suffices for the purpose of
> disambiguation. Thus, from the distinguishing perspective, there is no need
> to case mark both arguments. Neither would it be necessary to case mark the
> one and only argument of a one-place (intransitive) predicate.****
>
> ** **
>
> In Tsunoda’s recent paper, he presents the following:****
>
> *I’m hitting on something.*****
>
> *My feet don’t touch to the ground.*****
>
> ** **
>
> While the above examples do not involve the preposition on or to* *in
> adults’ English, children may initially include these prepositions but
> later abandon these prepositions, in accordance with the grammar of adults’
> English.****
>
>
>  If there are papers referring to such phenomena, please let me know.
>
>
>  Masahiko Minami
>   ------------------------------
>
>   From: Tom Roeper <roeper at linguist.umass.edu>
> Reply-To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:24 PM
> To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Hierarchy of Two-Place Predicates
>
>  Can you be a little more specific about what you mean?
> Tom Roeper
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Masahiko Minami <mminami at sfsu.edu>wrote:
>
>>   Dear All,
>>
>>  I would like to know whether there are language acquisition studies
>> (either L1 or L2) that refer to the hierarchy of two-place predicates.
>> Thank you.
>>
>>  Masahiko Minami
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