Agent control and the acquisition of event culmination in Basque, Dutch, English, Spanish and Mandarin
In this paper we investigate if there is a connection between the acceptance of non-culmination in child language and a seemingly similar phenomenon in certain adult languages. In Mandarin, among other languages, adults accept telic-perfective clauses for non-culminating situations. The types of verbs that allow such readings are referred to as non-culminating accomplishments. Recently, novel developments in semantic theory have established that subject type plays a role in the acceptance of non-culmination in these languages. According to the Agent Control hypothesis (Demirdache & Martin... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | contributionToPeriodical |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Cascadilla Press
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26672171 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/11370/f48551de-7a32-4a7f-854c-642bb45a3943 |