| Autor: |
Deen, Kamil Ud |
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First Language; Feb2006, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p67-102, 36p, 1 Diagram, 14 Charts, 2 Graphs |
| Abstrakt: |
In this paper we explore the development of the morphosyntax-semantics interface by comparing development in 4 typologically diverse languages: Dutch (a Germanic V2 language), Greek, Italian (a Romance pro-drop language) and Swahili (a Bantu language), with particular emphasis on Swahili, a relatively understudied language whose morphosyntactic structure is particularly relevant to the questions we address. We show that children acquiring these different languages all adhere to a morphosyntax-semantics mapping principle that forces a complementarity between the expression of mood and the expression of tense - the Semantic Opposition Hypothesis (SOH), following Hyams (2002). Our findings support the hypothesis that linguistic development is guided by universal principles which lie at the interface of semantico-conceptual structure and morphosyntax. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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