Movement and clitics : adult and child grammar / edited by Vicenç Torrens [and others].

"This volume presents ... contributions of the workshops Facing movement and Meeting clitics that took place during the Linguistic Institute in Barcelona in August 2008"--Introduction

Includes bibliographical references.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1; PART 1.1. ADULT GRAMMAR; TYPOLOGY OF VERB MOVEMENT IN SCANDINAVIAN; RECONSTRUCTION ASYMMETRY IN THE PARASITIC GAP CONSTRUCTIONS AND THE NATURE OF ISLANDS; ON THE (UN)AVAILABILITY OF LONG-DISTANCE MOVEMENT; SUBEXTRACTION FROM SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS; WH-IN-SITU; PART 1.2. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; INTERVENTION EFFECTS IN RUSSIAN SPEAKERS' L2 CHINESE GRAMMARS; THE LEFT PERIPHERY IN L2 SERBO-CROATIAN; THE ACQUISITION OF GERMAN V2 IN BILINGUAL ITALIAN-GERMAN CHILDREN RESIDING IN GERMANY AND ITALY.

SYNTACTIC MOVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTION OF FRENCH WH-QUESTIONSPART 2: CLITICS; 2.1. ADULT GRAMMAR; ON CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE; MORPHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX CLITIC PRONOUNS AND SPURIOUS SE ONCE AGAIN; ITALIAN CLITICS; RESTRICTIONS ON ENCLITICS AND THE IMPERATIVE IN IBERIAN SPANISH; SYNTAX-PHONOLOGY INTERFACE AND CLITIC PLACEMENT IN MAYAN LANGUAGES; PART 2.2. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTAL AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE STATUS AND ACQUISITION OF SUBJECT CLITICS AND AGREEMENT MARKING IN ADULT AND CHILD SPOKEN FRENCH; ASYMMETRIES IN THE ACQUISITION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CLITICS IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE.

This volume gathers selected papers from the workshops Facing Movement and Meeting Clitics held in the context of the Barcelona Linguistic Institute. The authors explore a wide variety of languages, from Icelandic to Mayan, from Japanese to Russian and Italian, from various data sources: adult grammar, first and second language acquisition, developmental language disorders and language change. The papers on movement address the issues of reconstruction in parasitic gaps; the alternation between short and long distance movement in Germanic; subextraction from subjects; wh- in situ in Greek; wor.

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