Causative change-of-state verbs like to open , to fill , and to wake are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of those verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation is a set of carefully designed experimental studies.
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Publisher
De Gruyter
ISBN-13
9783110173048
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96670242
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Subject Area
Data Analysis
Author
Angelika Wittek
Publication Name
Learning the Meaning of Change-Of-State Verbs: a Case Study of German Child Language