The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and Pragmatics

by Schaeffer, Jeannette C.

• ISBN13: 9781556198403
• ISBN10: 155619840X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
The relevance of the study of first language acquisition	1	(11)
What can child language teach us?	1	(3)
Continuity versus Maturation	4	(2)
Parameter (mis-)setting	6	(2)
Modularity	8	(1)
Early clause structure	9	(3)
The verbal and the nominal system	12	(1)
Organization	13	(2)
Object Scrambling and Cliticization	15	(36)
Introduction	15	(1)
Object scrambling in Dutch	16	(9)
Background	16	(7)
Object scrambling and referentiality	23	(2)
Object Clitics in Italian and Dutch	25	(2)
Analysis	27	(17)
Referentiality and the structure of DP	27	(2)
Object scrambling and object clitic placement as the same syntactic process	29	(15)
Implications for acquisition	44	(7)
Predictions	44	(2)
Spontaneous speech studies	46	(5)
Methodology	51	(16)
Introduction	51	(1)
Subjects	52	(2)
Procedure	54	(2)
Materials and methods	56	(11)
Dutch experiments	56	(8)
Italian experiments	64	(3)
Results and Discussion	67	(36)
Introduction	67	(1)
Experimental results	68	(16)
Data analysis	68	(1)
Direct object scrambling over negation in child Dutch	69	(7)
Direct object clitic placement in child Italian and Dutch	76	(8)
Interpretation	84	(10)
DP and clitic interpretation in adult language	84	(5)
DP and clitic interpretation in the grammar of 2-year olds	89	(5)
Past participle agreement in child Italian	94	(5)
The existence of RefP and DiscP in early grammar	99	(1)
Conclusion	100	(3)
Some Further Results	103	(18)
Introduction	103	(1)
Bare object nouns and scrambling in Dutch child language	104	(3)
Object scrambling over low and high adverbs in Dutch child language	107	(5)
Object clitics across constructions	112	(1)
Position of the object clitic in child Dutch and Italian	113	(3)
Contracted plural object clitics	116	(2)
Conclusion	118	(3)
Conclusion	121	(4)
Summary of main results	121	(1)
Implications for acquisition theories	122	(1)
Modularity	122	(1)
Universal Grammar and Continuity	123	(1)
Full Clause Hypothesis	123	(1)
Future research	123	(2)
Appendix	125	(50)
Scenarios Dutch experiment on direct object scrambling	125	(12)
English translation Dutch experiments	137	(19)
Scenarios Italian experiment on direct object clitic placement	156	(8)
English translations Italian experiments	164	(11)
References	175	(8)
Subject Index	183