02194cam a22003255i 4500 27585 27556 018271856 BUEsh 20190908101753.0 170307s2016 enka f b 001 0 eng d 9781316644935 (pbk.) StDuBDS eng StDuBDS rda BUEsh 415 BEC 22 Becker, Misha Karen, 1973- author. The acquisition of syntactic structure : animacy and thematic alignment / Misha Becker. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv, 324 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 141 Originally published: 2014. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 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. Language acquisition. BUEsh 31982 Grammar, Comparative and general Animacy. BUEsh Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax. BUEsh 39791 HHUUEENN September2019 Reading book ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2019-09-08 Purchase 720.00 0 415 BEC 000048021 2025-07-15 00:00:00 900.00 2019-09-08 BB