The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. The Acquisition of Clause-Internal Rules

   1. The Acquisition of Clause-Internal Rules

      • Susan M. Powers, Cornelia Hamann

      Pages 1-18

3. Scrambling

   1. Scrambling — What’s the State of the Art?

      • Hubert Haider

      Pages 19-40

   2. An Experimental Study of Scrambling and Object Shift in the Acquisition of Dutch

      • Isabella Barbier

      Pages 41-69

   3. Object Scrambling and Specificity in Dutch Child Language

      • Jeannette Schaeffer

      Pages 71-93

   4. Scrambling in the Acquisition of English?

      • Susan M. Powers

      Pages 95-126

   5. Where Scrambling Begins: Triggering Object Scrambling at the Early Stage in German and Bernese Swiss German

      • Zvi Penner, Rosemarie Tracy, Jürgen Weissenborn

      Pages 127-164

4. Cliticization

   1. Overview: The Grammar (and Acquisition) of Clitics

      • Anna Cardinaletti, Michal Starke

      Pages 165-186

   2. Parameters and Cliticization in Early Child German

      • Marco Haverkort, Jürgen Weissenborn

      Pages 187-206

   3. On the Non-Parallelism in the Acquisition of Reflexive and Non-Reflexive Object Clitics

      • Berthold Crysmann, Natascha Müller

      Pages 207-236

   4. Dissociations in the Acquisition of Clitic Pronouns by Dysphasic Children: A Case Study from Italian

      • Piero Bottari, Paola Cipriani, Anna Maria Chilosi

      Pages 237-277

   5. The Acquisition of Clitic-Doubling in Spanish

      • Vicenç Torrens, Kenneth Wexler

      Pages 279-297

   6. The Automatic Identification and Classification of Clitic Pronouns

      • Shyam Kapur, Robin Clark

      Pages 299-317

   7. The L2 Acquisition of Cliticization in Standard German

      • Martha Young-Scholten

      Pages 319-343

5. Related Issues

   1. Null Subjects in Early Child English and the Theory of Economy of Projection

      • Thomas Roeper, Bernhard Rohrbacher

      Pages 345-396

   2. The PP-CP Parallelism Hypothesis and Language Acquisition: Evidence from Swedish

      • Gunløg Josefsson, Gisela Håkansson

      Pages 397-422

   3. Negation, Infinitives, and Heads

      • Cornelia Hamann

      Pages 423-477

   4. Left-Branch Extraction as Operator Movement: Evidence from Child Dutch

      • Jacqueline Van Kampen

      Pages 479-503

6. Back Matter

   Pages 505-514

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This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. While observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be found in the literature, up until the recent past they were sparse and often buried in other issues. This volume fills a long-existing gap in providing a collection of articles which focus on language acquisition but at the same time address the overarching syntactic issues involved (for example, the X-bar status of clitics, base-generation vs. movement accounts of scrambling). This volume contains an overview of L1 (and, in one case, L2) acquisition data from a number of different languages including Bernese, Swiss, German, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, as well as from several theoretical points of view with these two clause-internal processes at its center. These language acquisition data are considered to be crucial in the validation of analyses of these specific linguistic phenomena in adult grammars. The contributions in this volume include the earliest thoughts in this vein and, for this reason, should be viewed as a starting point for discussions within theoretical linguistics and language acquisition alike.

• Flexive
• Negation
• Scrambling
• grammar
• infinitive
• language
• language acquisition
• pronominal
• pronouns
• subject
• syntactic

• University of Potsdam, Germany

  Susan M. Powers

• University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Cornelia Hamann

• University of Tübingen, Germany

  Cornelia Hamann

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