There is a dummy ‘is’ in early first language acquisition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Dummy auxiliaries in monolingual first language acquisition
5. Superfluous ‘do’ and comparison of spell-outs 11
6. Dummy auxiliaries in Dutch first language acquisition 39
7. Semantic dummy verbs in child Dutch 75
8. There is a dummy ‘is’ in early first language acquisition 101
9. Lightverbhood in child language: Evidence from Cypriot Greek 141
10. Dummy auxiliaries in simultaneous and successive child bilingualism
11. Reflections on dummy ‘do’ in child language and syntactic theory 171
12. Dummy verbs in first and second language acquisition in German 209
13. Dummy auxiliaries in children with SLI – a study on Dutch, in monolinguals and bilinguals 251
14. Dummy auxiliaries in adult second language acquisition
15. From dummy auxiliary to auxiliary in Moroccan adult learners’ production and comprehension of Dutch 281
16. Dummy verbs and the acquisition of verb raising in L2 German and French 307
17. Broader perspectives on dummy auxiliaries
18. Dummies and auxiliaries in the acquisition of L1 and L2 Dutch 341
19. Child use of auxiliary + infinitive in Dutch: Acquisition device or reflection of the input 369
20. Dummy auxiliaries in Dutch dialects, L1 and L2 acquisition 395
21. Index 417