02349cam a22003375i 4500999001700000001001000017003000600027005001700033008004100050020002500091040003800116082001700154100004100171245009400212264005200306300006300358336002600421337002800447338002700475490004400502500003200546504005100578520102800629650004001657650005401697650006001751653002801811655001701839942001201856952014301868  c27585d27556018271856BUEsh20190908101753.0170307s2016    enka   f b    001 0 eng d  a9781316644935 (pbk.)  aStDuBDSbengcStDuBDSerdadBUEsh04a415bBEC2221 aBecker, Misha Karen,d1973-eauthor.14aThe acquisition of syntactic structure :banimacy and thematic alignment /cMisha Becker. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2016.  axv, 324 pages :billustrations (black and white) ;c23 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aCambridge studies in linguistics ;v141  aOriginally published: 2014.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis 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. 7aLanguage acquisition.2BUEsh931982 7aGrammar, Comparative and generalxAnimacy.2BUEsh 7aGrammar, Comparative and generalxSyntax.2BUEsh939791  bHHUUEENNcSeptember2019  vReading book  2ddccBB  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc2NDd2019-09-08ePurchaseg720.00l0o415 BECp000048021r2025-07-15 00:00:00v900.00w2019-09-08yBB