Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Argument structure and clause-internal syntax in children
5. Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English 13
6. Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children’s passive acquisition 35
7. Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese? 65
8. The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English 89
9. The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI 107
10. Part II. The DP domain
11. The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children 131
12. Pronouns vs. definite descriptions 157
13. An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds 185
14. The syntactic domain of content 205
15. Part III. Learning theory
16. There-insertion 251
17. Metalinguistic skills of children 271
18. Children’s Grammatical Conservatism 291
19. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies 309
20. A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children 325
21. Index 357