Acquisition of Complex Sentences

Informationen zum Autor Holger Diessel is a Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Klappentext Provides a comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Zusammenfassung This pathbreaking study provides a comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Holger Diessel investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children aged between two and five! examining the acquisition of infinitival! participial and finite complement clauses! finite and non-finite relative clauses! and co-ordinate clauses. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A dynamic network model of grammatical constructions; 3. Towards a definition of complex sentences and subordinate clauses; 4. Infinitival and participial complement constructions; 5. Complement clauses; 6. Relative clauses; 7. Adverbial and co-ordinate clauses; 8. Conclusion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Holger Diessel, Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Diessel
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107488
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10748-8
• Seiten: 244
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Psychologie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke