Acquisition of Aspect and Modality - The Case of Past Reference in Turkish

Ayhan Aksu-Ko 's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense.

List of contents

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Symbols and abbreviations; Part I. Tense, Aspect and Modality in Acquisition: 1. Introduction; 2. Tense, aspect and modality; 3. Theoretical and empirical research on the development of temporal reference; Part II. Development of Past Reference in Turkish: From 'Perfect' Aspect to 'Evidential' Modality: 4. The empirical study: rationale and hypotheses; 5. Longitudinal study of early inflectional development; 6. Experimental study of the production of the pasts of direct vs. indirect experience; 7. Experimental study of the comprehension and metalinguistic awareness of the pasts of direct vs. indirect experience; 8. Production and comprehension of the quotation function; Part III. Conclusions and General Implications: 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

Summary

Ayhan Aksu-Koç's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense.

Product details

• Authors: Ayhan Aksu-Koc, Ayhan (Bogazici University Aksu-Koc, Aksu-Koc Ayhan
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.1988
• EAN: 9780521331197
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33119-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics