<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">Dear Mr Snyder,</p>
<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">thank you very much for responding to my question! This sounds very good and I am going to read the article and the book.</p>
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<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">Best wishes</p>
<p style="padding:0 0 0 0; margin:0 0 0 0;">Karla</p>
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> Od: william.snyder@uconn.edu<br />
> Komu: info-childes@googlegroups.com<br />
> Datum: 09.01.2009 19:32<br />
> Předmět: Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English<br />
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Dear Karla,<br />
<br />
I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English <br />
spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs <br />
from languages like Czech in this respect.<br />
<br />
The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial <br />
particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the <br />
creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a <br />
book about the zoo).<br />
<br />
I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian <br />
and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like <br />
"zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or <br />
perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite <br />
different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech <br />
would resort to something other than separable particles; the <br />
inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we <br />
find in such languages.<br />
<br />
For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence <br />
(from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys <br />
of adult speakers), you can refer to the following:<br />
<br />
Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from <br />
complex predicates and complex word-formation. <papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf>" <br />
/Language/ 77:324-342. [<a href="http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf]">http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf]</a><br />
<br />
Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford <br />
University Press. [Chapter 5]<br />
<br />
Very best wishes,<br />
<br />
William Snyder<br />
<br />
Karla wrote:<br />
> Dear all,<br />
> I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find<br />
> literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial<br />
> particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes<br />
> in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any<br />
> syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone<br />
> recommend literature relevent to this topic?<br />
><br />
> All the best,<br />
><br />
> Karla<br />
> ><br />
><br />
> <br />
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