The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages ix
4. The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children 3
5. On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes 23
6. Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan 51
7. Null arguments in monolingual children 69
8. Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition 95
9. A cross-sectional study on the use of “be” in early Italian 117
10. Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language 135
11. Looking for the universal core of the RI stage 159
12. The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis 183
13. Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop 203
14. The acquisition of A- and A’-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese 227
15. Acquiring long-distance wh-questions in L1 Spanish 251
16. Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh -scope marking in French * 289
17. Acquisition of focus marking in European Portuguese 319
18. Subject pronouns in bilinguals 331
19. Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in l2 acquisition? 353
20. The development of the syntax-information structure interface 371
21. Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter 401
22. Index 419