More on the acquisition of ergative languages

[Tasaku Tsunoda]

Dear Colleague,
   More on the literature on the acquisition of ergative languages (as of
the 2nd July 2002)

   So far, the following people have kindly responded. Many thanks to you
all.

Peter Bakker, Penelope Brown, Beatriz Fernandez, William Foley, Geoffrey
Haig, Alexandr E. Kibrik, Elisabeth Leiss, Stephen Levinson, Elke Nowak,
Anna Siewierska

   All the works cited by the above-mentioned scholars are listed below. In
addition, those works which I have discovered via the cited works, too, are
listed.

   Again, thank you all for your help.

Best wishes,

Tasaku Tsunoda

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Allen, Shanley E.M. 1996. Aspects of argument structure acquisition in
Inuktitut. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Allen, Shanley E.M. 1998. Categories within the verb category: learning the
causative in Inkuktitut. Linguistics 36:633-77.

Allen, Shanley E.M. 2000. A Discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument
representation in child Inuktitut. Linguistics 38:483-521.

Allen, Shanley; and Heike Schröder. In press (?). Preferred argument
structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech Data. In John W. Du Bois,
Lorraine E. Kumpf, and William J. Ashby (eds.), Preferred argument
structure: grammar as architecture for function. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Barreña, a. 1997. "Desarrollo diferenciado de sistemas gramaticales en un
niño vasco-español bilingüe". In Pérez-leroux & W.Glass (eds) Contemporary
perspective on the acquisition of Spanish. Somerville: Cascadilla.

Barreña,A. 2001. "Grammar differentiation in early bilingual acquisition:
Subordination structures in Spanish and Basque". In Almgren, et alii (eds)
Research on child language acquisition. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of
the IASCL, vol II.

Bavin, Edith L. 1992. The acquisition of Warlpiri. In Dan Isaac Slobin
(ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol.3, 309-71. New
Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Bavin, Edith. 2000. Ellipsis in Warlpiri children¹s narratives: an analysis
of frog stories. Linguistics 38:569-89.

Brown, Penelope. 1998. Children¹s first verbs in Tzeltal; evidence for an
early verb category. Linguistics 36:613-53.

Ezeizabarrena, M.J. 1997. "Morfemas de concordancia con el sujeto y con los
objetos en el castellano infantil". In Pérez-leroux & W.Glass (eds)
Contemporary perspective on the acquisition of Spanish. Somerville:
Cascadilla.

Ezeizabarrena, M.J. 2002, in press. "Root infinitives in two pro-drop
languages". In A.T. Pérez-Leroux & J. Liceras (eds) The acquisition of
Spanish morphosyntax: The L1/L2 connection. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Ezeizabarrena, M.J. & M.P. Larrañaga .1996. Ergativity in Basque: a problem
for language acquisition? Linguistics 34:955-991

Fortescue, Michael. 1992. The acquisition of West Greenlandic. In Dan Isaac
Slobin (ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol.3,
111-219. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Imedadze, Natela; and Kevin Tuite. 1992. The acquisition of Georgian. In Dan
Isaac Slobin (ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition,
Vol.3, 39-109. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Larranaga, Maria Pilar. 2000. Ergative Sprachen, akkusative Sprachen. Der
Erwerb des Kasus bei bilingualen Kindern (Ergative languages, accusative
languages. Acquisition of case by bilingual children). Frankfurt am Main.

Meisel, J. (ed.) 1994. La adquisición del vasco y del castellano en niños
bilingües. Frankfurt: Vervuert.

Meisel, J. & M.J. Ezeizabarrena. 1996. "Subject-verb and object-verb
agreement in early Basque". In H. Clahsen (ed) Generative perspectives on
language acquisition. Benjamins.

Ochs, Elinor. 1982. Ergativity and word order in Samoan child language.
Language 58:646-71.

Ochs, Elinor. 1985. Variation and error: a sociolinguistic approach to
language acquisition in Samoa. In Dan Isaac Slobin (ed.), The
crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol.1: The data, 783-838. New
Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ochs, Elinor. 1988. Culture and language development. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Pye, C. 1990. The acquisition of ergative languages. Linguistics
28:1291-1330.

Pye, Clifton. 1992. The acquisition of K¹che¹ Maya. In Dan Isaac Slobin
(ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol.3, 221-308.
New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Schieffelin, Bambi B.  1985.  The acquisition of Kaluli. In Dan Isaac Slobin
(ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol.1: The data,
525-93. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Schieffelin, Bambi B. 1990. The give and take of everyday life. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1992. An overview of ergative phenomena and their
implications for language acquisition. In Dan Isaac Slobin (ed.), The
crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol.3, 15-37. New Jersey:
Lawrence Erlbaum.

Zubiri, J.J 2001. "The acquisition of Noun Phrases in a Basque-Spanish
bilingual child". In Almgren, et alii (eds) Research on Child Language
acquisition. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the IASCL, vol II.

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Tasaku Tsunoda
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
University of Tokyo
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