The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Early Verbs and the Acquisition of Tense Feature in Spanish and Catalan

   • Aurora Bel

   Pages 1-34

3. Root Infinitives in Two Pro-Drop Languages

   • Maria Jose Ezeizabarrena

   Pages 35-65

4. Aspects of the Null Object Phenomenon in Child Spanish

   • Hanako Fujino, Tetsuya Sano

   Pages 67-88

5. Spell-Out Conditions for Interpretable Features in L1 and L2/Bilingual Spanish

   • Liliana Sanchez

   Pages 89-114

6. The l2 acquisition of morphosyntactic and semantic properties of the aspectual tenses preterite and imperfect

   • Silvina Montrul, Roumyana Slabakova

   Pages 115-151

7. The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish DPS: the Status of Grammatical Features

   • Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Lydia White

   Pages 153-178

8. Inalienable Possession in L2 Spanish

   • Ana T. Perez-Leroux, Erin O’rourke, Gillian Lord, Beatriz Centeno-Cortes

   Pages 179-208

9. The Compounding Parameter and the Word-Marker Hypothesis

   • Juana M. Liceras, Lourdes Díaz, Terhi Salomaa-Robertson

   Pages 209-237

10. Back Matter

    Pages 239-249

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Recent developments in linguistic theory, as well as the growing body of evidence from languages other than English, provide new opportunities for deeper explorations into how language is represented in the mind of learners. This collection of new empirical studies on the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax by leading researchers in the field of language acquisition, specifically contributes to the characterization of the L1 / L2 connection in acquisition. Using L1 and L2 Spanish data from children and adults, the authors seek to address the central questions that have occupied developmental psycholinguists in the final decades of the previous century and that will no doubt continue engaging them into the present one.

• English
• Index
• Psycholinguist
• grammatical features
• infinitive
• language acquisition
• morpho-syntax
• present
• syntactic

• University of Toronto, Canada

  Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux

• University of Ottawa, Canada

  Juana Muñoz Liceras

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