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Author(s): Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown
ISBN(s): 9780805841947, 0805841946
Edition: 1
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0805841946
ISBN 13: 9780805841947
Author: Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized.The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and com
 

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure Implications for Learnability 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction

I. Verb Meaning and Verb Syntax: Crosslinguistic Puzzles for Language Learners

2 A Person, a Place, or a Thing? Whorfian Consequences of Syntactic Bootstrapping in Mopan Maya

3 The Pitfalls of Getting from Here to There: Bootstrapping the Syntax and Semantics of Motion Event Coding in Yukatek Maya

4 Making Sense of Complex Verbs: On the Semantics and Argument Structure of Closed-Class Verbs and Coverbs in Jaminjung

5 Figure–Ground Indeterminacy in Descriptions of Spatial Relations: A Construction Grammar Account

6 Learning Verbs without Boots and Straps? The Problem of ‘Give’ in Saliba

II. Participants Present and Absent: Argument Ellipsis and Verb Learning

7 Same Argument Structure, Different Meanings: Learning ‘Put’ and ‘Look’ in Arrernte

8 Verb Specificity and Argument Realization in Tzeltal Child Language

9 Interacting Pragmatic Influences on Children’s Argument Realization

III. Transitivity, Intransitivity, and their Associated Meanings: A Complex Work-Space for Learnability

10 Intransitive Verbs in Ewe and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis

11 He died old dying to be dead right: Transitivity and Semantic Shifts of ‘Die’ in Ewe in Crosslinguistic Perspective

12 Acquiring Telicity Crosslinguistically: On the Acquisition of Telicity Entailments Associated with Transitivity

13 The Acquisition of the English Causative Alternation

14 What Adverbs Have to Do with Learning the Meaning of Verbs

15 Event Realization in Tamil

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