Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)

Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to factivity and its acquisition. Factive sentences such as >John forgot that he bought wine< presuppose the truth of the embedded complement. The author argues that factivity results from the interaction of lexical-semantic, syntactic, and discourse-semantic factors. Rigorously designed experiments and a detailed analysis of longitudinal corpora provide evidence that the multidimensionality is mirrored in the acquisition process by a stepwise mastery of its different components. This book should be of interest to advanced students and researchers in both theoretical linguistics and language acquisition.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Linguistische Arbeiten
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Petra Schulz
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	262
Edition:	Reprint 2012
ISBN-13:	978-3-484-30480-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	3-484-30480-4
Barcode:	9783484304802

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