The locative alternation in German: its structure and acquisition
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Main Author: Brinkmann, Ursula (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins ©1997
Series:Language acquisition & language disorders v. 15
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Item Description:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.). - 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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and indexes
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 289 pages)
ISBN:1556197780
9027224811
9027281718
9781556197789
9789027224811
9789027281715

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