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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure - Animacy and Thematic Alignment (Paperback)
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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure - Animacy and Thematic Alignment (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the
establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the
different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John
is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the
premise that subjects are animate, the book argues that children
can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a cue to a
non-canonical structure, in which that subject is displaced (the
book is easy/*eager to read). The author uses evidence from a range
of linguistic subfields, including syntactic theory, typology,
language processing, conceptual development, language acquisition,
and computational modeling, exposing readers to these different
kinds of data in an accessible way. The theoretical claims of the
book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic
bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles
of language acquisition. This is a must-read for researchers in
language acquisition, syntax, psycholinguistics and computational
linguistics.
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