16.71, Books: Lang Acquisition/Morph/Syntax, Spanish: Montrul

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Date: 28-Dec-2004
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Acquisition of Spanish: Montrul

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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:47:08
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Acquisition of Spanish: Montrul

Title: The Acquisition of Spanish
Subtitle: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and
adult L2 acquisition

Series Title: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 37

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LALD%2037

Author: Silvina A. Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hardback: ISBN: 1588116042 Pages: xvi, 413 pp. Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027252963 Pages: xvi, 413 pp. Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588116050 Pages: xvi, 413 pp. Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9027252971 Pages: xvi, 413 pp. Price: Europe EURO 42.00

Abstract:

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a
state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic
development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is
organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of
research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology,
subject and object pronouns, complex structures involving movement
(topicalizations, questions, relative clauses), and aspects of verb meaning
that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar
constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a
fundamental continuity between monolingual, bilingual, child and adult
early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect
to linguistic representations and processes, the book also considers
important differences between these three acquisition situations with
respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many
linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and
other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the
acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as
those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts.

Table of contents

Preface  xi-xv
1. Theoretical Foundations  1-28
2. Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase  29-86
3. Morphosyntax of the Verb Phrase  87-172
4. Subject and Object Pronouns  173-247
5. Topics, questions, embedding and movement  249-298
6. Verb Meaning and Lexical Parameters  299-357
Conclusion  359-371
References  373-400
Index  401-411

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Bi- & Multilingualism
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Spanish (SPN)

Written In: English  (ENG)

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