32.3784, Books: Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition: Stephany, Aksu-Koç (eds.)

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Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 06:41:27
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition: Stephany, Aksu-Koç (eds.)

 


Title: Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition 
Subtitle: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective 
Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501504457/html 


Editor: Ursula Stephany
Editor: Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Electronic: ISBN:  9781501504457 Pages: 603 Price: U.S. $ 137.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781501512452 Pages: 603 Price: U.S. $ 137.99


Abstract:

This book deals with the development of modality from a crosslinguistic
perspective and is closely related to two earlier volumes on the development
of verb and nominal inflection in first language acquisition (SOLA 21 and 30)
both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions
studies the early development of the form and function of expressions of
deontic and dynamic agent-oriented modality or epistemic and evidential
propositional modality in one of fourteen languages belonging to different
morphological types and language families (seven Indo-European and seven
non-Indo-European).

The analyses are mainly based on longitudinal observations of children in
their 2nd and 3rd years of life in conversational interaction with their
caregivers, mostly the mothers. Main issues addressed are the development of
directives and modulations of information in terms of certainty and
evidentiality, also taking into account children’s developing social-pragmatic
and cognitive skills. One of the main findings is that agent-oriented and
propositional modality may develop in parallel depending on the typological
characteristics of the language acquired. The decisive factor is whether
notions of propositional modality are grammaticized and obligatorily expressed
in the language. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical
frameworks (Usage-based theories, Natural Morphology).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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