The acquisition of the DP in modern Greek / Theodoros Marinis.
This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that requ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2003.
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| Series: | Language acquisition & language disorders ;
v. 31. |
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| Summary: | This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that require the use of multiple definite articles -- possessive constructions, appositive constructions and Determiner Spreading, a form of adjectival modification -- and number and case marking in nouns and definite articles. Detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses show an incremental development of t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027295989 9027295980 9781588114501 1588114503 128216077X 9781282160774 |
| ISSN: | 0925-0123 ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |