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The acquisition of ergativity / Edited by Edith L. Bavin, La Trobe University ; Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich.
- Title
- The acquisition of ergativity / Edited by Edith L. Bavin, La Trobe University ; Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
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- Description
- 341 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from different geographic areas with different expressions of ergativity. Each chapter includes a description of ergativity in the language(s), the nature of the input, the social context of acquisition and developmental patterns. Comparisons of the acquisition process across closely related languages are made, change in progress of the ergative systems is discussed and, for one language, acquisition by bilingual and monolingual children is compared. The volume will be of particular interest to language acquisition researchers, linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive scientists.
- Series Statement
- Trends in language acquisition research, 1569-0644 ; volume 9
- Uniform Title
- Trends in language acquisition research ; v. 9.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: The acquisition of ergativity / Edith L. Bavin -- Ergativity: Some recurrent themes / Bernard Comrie -- Ergativity in child Basque / Jennifer Austin -- The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut / Shanley E. M. Allen -- The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri / Edith L. Bavin -- The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) / Bambi B. Schieffelin -- The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang / Balthasar Bickel -- Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech / Bhuvana Narasimhan -- The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish / Laura J. Mahalingappa -- The acquisition of agreement in four Mayan languages / Clifton Pye -- The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q'anjob'al and Yucatec / Pedro Mateo Pedro.
- ISBN
- 9789027234797 (hb : alk. paper)
- 9027234795 (hb : alk. paper)
- 9789027271235 (eb) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013029705
- OCLC
- 855488811
- SCSB-12127581
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library