This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the "real time acquisition" of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of…
As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling…
Anagnostopoulou reports research begun in 1994, conducted at the U. of Tilburg, MIT, and U. of Crete. She investigates ditransitives and the complex syntactic interaction between NP-movement and cliticization in double object constructions, arguing that NP-movement can be used a…
