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<font size=4><b>The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek<br><br>
Theodoros Marinis<br><br>
University College London<br><br>
</b></font>This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional
categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five
children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the
development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles,
complex DPs that require the use of multiple definite articles -
possessive constructions, appositive constructions and Determiner
Spreading, a form of adjectival modification - and number and case
marking in nouns and definite articles. Detailed quantitative and
qualitative analyses show an incremental development of the DP. The
findings address the debate concerning <i>maturation </i>versus
<i>continuity</i>. Incremental acquisition of the DP argues in favour of
a <i>weak continuity approach </i>to language acquisition. Whilst gradual
acquisition of the DP remains unexplained within the <i>Principles and
Parameters Theory</i>, it is fully compatible within <i>Minimalism</i>,
as it is argued to result from the gradual acquisition of the features
associated with the Greek DP.<br><br>
<b>Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 31<br>
2003. Hb xiv, 261 pp. 90 272 2500 1 EUR 105.00<br>
1 58811 450 3 USD 105.00<br><br>
</b><i>Acknowledgements</i>; <i>Preface</i>; <i>Abbreviations</i>; <i>1.
Acquisition theories and the acquisition of the DP</i>; <i>2.</i>
<i>Methodology</i>; <i>3. The DP in Modern Greek</i>; <i>4. Acquiring the
DP in MG</i>; <i>5. The acquisition of the possessive</i>
<i>construction</i>; <i>6. The acquisition of Determiner Spreading</i>;
<i>7. The acquisition of appositive constructions</i> <i>involving
kinship terms and proper names</i>; <i>8. Summary and conclusion</i>;
<i>References</i>; <i>Appendix 1</i>; <i>Appendix 2</i>;
<i>Index<br><br>
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