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.

Product details

• Authors: Holger Diessel, Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Diessel, Diessel Holger
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780521831932
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83193-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works