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ISBN: | 9789027281715 9027281718 1556197780 9781556197789 9027224811 9789027224811
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a learnability problem: how can children determine, in the absence of negative evidence, which verbs participate in the alternation? The Locative Alternation in German tries to answer this question by providing an in-depth analysis of the conditions that verbs must meet in order to participate in the alternati.
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Other form: | Print version: Brinkmann, Ursula. Locative alternation in German. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins, ©1997 1556197780 9781556197789
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