Movement and clitics : adult and child grammar /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Description:xii, 416 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8062908
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Other authors / contributors:Torrens, Vincent.
ISBN:9781443818476 (hbk.)
144381847X (hbk.)
Notes:Selected conference papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This volume gathers selected papers from the workshops Facing Movement and Meeting Clitics held in the context of the Barcelona Linguistic Institute. The authors explore a wide variety of languages, from Icelandic to Mayan, from Japanese to Russian and Italian, from various data sources: adult grammar, first and second language acquisition, developmental language disorders and language change. The papers on movement address the issues of reconstruction in parasitic gaps; the alternation between short and long distance movement in Germanic; subextraction from subjects; wh- in situ in Greek; word order alternations derived by movement in bilingual acquisition; intervention effects in L2 acquisition of Chinese; multiple wh- fronting in L2; and production of wh- questions in L1, L2 and SLI in French. In the papers on clitics, the theoretical issues considered include: the affixal character of subject clitics in L1; the morphological complexity of clitics; proclisis versus enclisis; the restrictions on cooccurrence of clitics in causative and other constructions; clitic placement in relation to L2 and language change; clitics as demarcative markers; and the acquisition of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese.
Item Description:Selected conference papers.
Physical Description:xii, 416 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443818476
144381847X