Embedded V-To-C in Child Grammar: The Acquisition of Verb Placement in Swiss German
How children acquire competence in verb placement in languages in which verb placement in matrix clauses does not coincide with that in embedded clauses is not well understood. Verb-Second languages like German and Dutch display the verb-final pattern in
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STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS VOLUME 27
Managing Editors Lyn Frazier, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Kenneth Wexler, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Editorial Board Robert Berwick, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Manfred Bierwisch, Zentralinstitut fur Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin Merrill Garrett, University ofArizona, Tucson Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Mary-Louise Kean, University of California, Irvine Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs John Marshall, Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford Daniel Osherson, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Yukio Otsu, Keio University, Tokyo Edwin Williams, Princeton University
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
EMBEDDEDV-TO-C IN CHILD GRAMMAR: THE ACQUISITION OF VERB PLACEMENT IN SWISS GERMAN
by
MANUELASCHÖNENBERGER Institut für Linguistik: Anglistik, Universität Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.Y.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-0-7923-7186-1 ISBN 978-94-010-0798-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0798-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ...................................................................................... ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................. xi NOTATION ................................................................................. xiii INTRODUCTION ......................................................................... xix GENERAL PROPERTIES OF SWISS GERMAN 1 2 2.1 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.2 3 3.1 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.3 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.4 3.5 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.3 4 4.1 4.2
Introduction ......................................................................... 1 The Verbal and Nominal System of Swiss German ...................... 2 The Verbal System ................................................................ 2 Agreement and Tense ............................................................ 2 Mood .................................................................................. 5 The Nominal System ............................................................. 6 Verb Placement in Swiss German ............................................. 7 General Patterns .................................................................... 7 The Position of the Finite Verb in Matrix Clauses ........................ 8 Verb First ................................................................
