THE ACQUISITION OF THE DP IN MODERN GREEK by Theodoros Marinis ( 9789027225009 )

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THE ACQUISITION OF THE DP IN MODERN GREEK

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ISBN 10:

9027225001

ISBN 13:

9789027225009

Publisher:

JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO

Pub. date:

19 December, 2003

Series:

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 31

Pages:

273

Description:

Based on corpora of children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, this title describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that require the use of multiple definite articles, and number and case marking in nouns and definite articles.

Synopsis:

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 the DP. The findings address the debate concerning maturation versus continuity. Incremental acquisition of the DP argues in favour of a weak continuity approach to language acquisition. Whilst gradual acquisition of the DP remains unexplained within the Principles and Parameters Theory, it is fully compatible within Minimalism, as it is argued to result from the gradual acquisition of the features associated with the Greek DP.

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Publication:

Netherlands

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John Benjamins Publishing Co

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