Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction xv
7. The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English 1
8. Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition 43
9. The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar 91
10. Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development 129
11. Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy 161
12. Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque 201
13. Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives 241
14. Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures 271
15. On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French 309
16. Clitics in L2 French 335
17. The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax 369
18. The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition 415
19. How, Hang on a Minute 451
20. Index of Names 487
21. Index of Subjects 495