Chapter 3. Learnability issues in VPE and focus
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Ana Lúcia Santos
Abstract
In the preceding chapter, I showed that VPE is a complex issue, involving syntactic licensing conditions and discourse/semantic identification conditions. If understood as deletion, along the lines of recent work, it involves the PF interface and therefore the syntax/phonology interface. By its discourse properties, VPE indirectly relates to focus. In this chapter, I present the main questions for acquisition that are raised by what we know about VPE and its interaction with focus, I report the results of preceding research on the acquisition of VPE and focus, and I define the working hypotheses of this dissertation.
Abstract
In the preceding chapter, I showed that VPE is a complex issue, involving syntactic licensing conditions and discourse/semantic identification conditions. If understood as deletion, along the lines of recent work, it involves the PF interface and therefore the syntax/phonology interface. By its discourse properties, VPE indirectly relates to focus. In this chapter, I present the main questions for acquisition that are raised by what we know about VPE and its interaction with focus, I report the results of preceding research on the acquisition of VPE and focus, and I define the working hypotheses of this dissertation.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- List of tables xi
- List of figures xii
- Preface xiii
- Abbreviations used in glosses xv
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- Chapter 2. VPE and the structural and anaphoric properties of minimal answers in EP adult grammar 21
- Chapter 3. Learnability issues in VPE and focus 113
- Chapter 4. How early can VPE be found? 137
- Chapter 5. Answers as a window into the interpretation of questions 225
- Chapter 6. Conclusions 271
- References 283
- Subject index 295
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- List of tables xi
- List of figures xii
- Preface xiii
- Abbreviations used in glosses xv
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- Chapter 2. VPE and the structural and anaphoric properties of minimal answers in EP adult grammar 21
- Chapter 3. Learnability issues in VPE and focus 113
- Chapter 4. How early can VPE be found? 137
- Chapter 5. Answers as a window into the interpretation of questions 225
- Chapter 6. Conclusions 271
- References 283
- Subject index 295
