By Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Marit Westergaard
The subject of edition in language has got enormous realization within the box of basic linguistics lately. This contains study on linguistic micro-variation that's depending on superb differences in syntax and data constitution. besides the fact that, really little paintings has been performed on how this alteration is obtained. This e-book makes a speciality of how types of version are expressed within the enter and the way this is often bought via teenagers. the gathering of papers contains reports of the purchase of edition in a couple of various languages, together with English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Swiss German, Ukrainian, and American signal Language. other forms of linguistic edition are thought of, starting from natural notice order edition to optionally doubly stuffed COMPs and the solution of scopal ambiguities. moreover, papers within the quantity take care of the intense case of version present in bilingual acquisition.
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Example (10a) could be derived either by verb movement to the left (as in matrix clauses) or by extraposing the constituent selected by the auxiliary verb tuet to the right, which would be an instance of Verb-Projection Raising (cf. o. Haegeman and Van Riemsdijk 1986, Haegeman 1992, Scho¨nenberger 1995). Similarly, in example (10b) the finite verb fehlt has either undergone movement to the left or the adjunct PP bi der has been extraposed to the right. The embedded clause in example (10c) consists only of the subject wh-phrase and a finite verb.
The questionanswer requirement and scope assignment. In Plato’s problem: Problems in language acquisition, eds. Aniko Csirmaz, Andrea Gualmini and Andrew Nevins, 71–90. Cambridge: MITWPL. Kra¨mer, Irene. 2000. Interpreting indefinites. D. Dissertation, Utrecht University. Labov, William. 1972. Sociolinguistic patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Ladusaw, William. 1979. Polarity sensitivity as inherent scope relations. D. Dissertation, University of Texas. Musolino, Julien. 1998.
In particular, the prediction is that adults should select the inverse scope interpretation of the target sentence when that sentence is presented as an answer to the question in (18), since the inverse scope interpretation entails an answer to that question and makes the sentence true. By contrast, adults are expected to select the surface scope interpretation of the target sentence when that sentence is presented as an answer to the question in (19), since only the surface scope interpretation entails an answer to that question.