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Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Verb Meaning and Verb Syntax: Crosslinguistic Puzzles for Language Learners | |
A Person, a Place, or a Thing? Whorfian Consequences of Syntactic Bootstrapping in Mopan Maya | p. 29 |
The Pitfalls of Getting from Here to There: Bootstrapping the Syntax and Semantics of Motion Event Coding in Yukatek Maya | p. 49 |
Making Sense of Complex Verbs: On the Semantics and Argument Structure of Closed-Class Verbs and Coverbs in Jaminjung | p. 69 |
Figure-Ground Indeterminacy in Descriptions of Spatial Relations: A Construction Grammar Account | p. 89 |
Learning Verbs without Boots and Straps? The Problem of 'Give' in Saliba | p. 111 |
Participants Present and Absent: Argument Ellipsis and Verb Learning | |
Same Argument Structure, Different Meanings: Learning 'Put' and 'Look' in Arrernte | p. 141 |
Verb Specificity and Argument Realization in Tzeltal Child Language | p. 167 |
Interacting Pragmatic Influences on Children's Argument Realization | p. 191 |
Transitivity, Entransitivity, and Their Associated Meanings: A Complex Work-Space for Learnability | |
Intransitive Verbs in Ewe and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis | p. 213 |
He died old dying to be dead right: Transitivity and Semantic Shifts of 'Die' in Ewe in Crosslinguistic Perspective | p. 231 |
Acquiring Telicity Crosslinguistically: On the Acquisition of Telicity Entailments Associated with Transitivity | p. 255 |
The Acquisition of the English Causative Alternation | p. 279 |
What Adverbs Have to Do with Learning the Meaning of Verbs | p. 309 |
Event Realization in Tamil | p. 331 |
Author Index | p. 357 |
Language Index | p. 363 |
Subject Index | p. 365 |
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