"This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure"
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjec…
This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure.
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjec…
"Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication, idea, or intention can be articulated in different ways--in other words, the sam…
Structures and beyond
by Cinque, Guglielmo, Belletti, Adriana
fromOxford studies in comparative syntax