The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics

摘要: This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations object placement Dutch Italian child language with an analysis that makes use Modularity Hypothesis. Real development is explained by interaction between two different modules language, namely syntax pragmatics. Children need build up knowledge how world works, which includes learning communicating someone else, one must realize speaker hearer are always independent. Since syntactic feature referentiality can only be marked if this (pragmatic) distinction made, assuming certain types (such as scrambling clitic placement) motivated referentiality, it follows relevant mechanism dependent on prior acquisition pragmatic distinction.