29.835, Books: The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Lorusso

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:41:09
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Lorusso

 


Title: The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface 
Subtitle: Early Predicates 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-acquisition-of-verbs-at-the-syntax-semantics-interface 


Author: Paolo Lorusso

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527503335 Pages: 283 Price: U.K. £ 64.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781527503335 Pages: 283 Price: U.S. $ 99.95


Abstract:

This book presents theoretical and experimental analyses of the nature of
early verbs. At around the age of two years old, children start to combine
words and produce their first verbs. Verbal items appear later than nouns in a
child’s speech and refer to the relational concepts in the world that are
represented in syntax through the argument structure. 

The central set of data investigated here is based on the analysis of the
features of first verbal productions in Italian. Since the appearance of verbs
implies the mastery of a mapping procedure between syntactic positions and
semantic roles, the syntactic regularities found for each lexical verb class
suggest that the relation at the syntax-semantics interface is
well-established early on. The non-adult-like sentences are those which
involve the mastery of the scope-discourse semantic interface or higher
functional syntactic categories. The analysis of the delay in the production
and comprehension of some constructions here uncovers some general
characteristics of language acquisition devices.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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