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Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition
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Little Words is an interdisciplinary examination of the functions and change in the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and other “little words” that have played a central role in linguistic theory and in language acquisition research. Leading scholars present advanced research in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse function, historical development, variation, and acquisition by children and adults.
This unique volume integrates the views and findings of these different research areas into one professional source to be used within and across disciplines. Languages studied include English, Spanish, French, Romanian, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Slavonic, and Medieval Leonese.
Table of Contents
Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I: HISTORY
Chapter 2. From "Two" to "Both": Historical Changes in the Syntax and Meaning of Oba in Slavic
Chapter 3. When Small Words Collide: Morphological Reduction and Phonological Compensation in Old Leonese Contractions
PART II: PHONOLOGY
Chapter 4. Distinguishing Function Words from Content Words in Children's Oral Reading
Chapter 5. Motivating Floating Quantifiers
PART III: SYNTAX
Chapter 6. Applicative Phrases Hosting Accusative Clitics
Chapter 7. The Little DE of Degree Constructions
Chapter 8. The Complementizer The
Chapter 9. What Is There When Little Words Are Not There ?: Possible Implications for Evolutionary Studies
Chapter 10. Spanish Personal a and the Antidative
PART IV: SEMANTICS
Chapter 11. Predicting Argument Realization from Oblique Marker Semantics
Chapter 12. Aspect Selectors, Scales, and Contextual Operators: An Analysis of by Temporal Adjuncts
Chapter 13. Distributive Effects of the Plural Marker âtul in Korean
PART V: PRAGMATICS
Chapter 14. The Pragmatics of the French Discourse Markers donc and alors
Chapter 15. "Little Words" in Small Talk: Some Considerations on the Use of the Pragmatic Markers man in English and macho/tÃo in Peninsular Spanish
Chapter 16. Little Words That Could Impact One's Impression on Others: Greetings and Closings in Institutional E-mails
PART VI: ACQUISITION
Chapter 17. Instructed L2 Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish
Chapter 18. The Role of Pedagogical Tasks and Focus on Form in Acquisition of Discourse Markers by Advanced Language Learners
Chapter 19. Article Acquisition in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish
Chapter 20. A Continuum in French Children's Surface Realization of Auxiliaries
| ISBN | 9781589015968 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9781589012547 |
| DOI | 10.1353/book.13060 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 430927526 |
| Pages | 258 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2012-02-08 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
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