00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611709632 Buklod 20230619154520.0 m o j ta 060816s2008 njua rb |001 0|eng d 9780415721998 (paperback) (iLib)UPD-00247607838 DLC DML rda eng DMLUC P 118 C767 2014 Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure [edited by] Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown. New York Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2014. viii, 370 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier First published 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. -- Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction / Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown -- Verb meaning and verb syntax : cross-linguistic puzzles for language learners -- A person, a place, or a thing? whorfian consequences of syntactic bootstrapping in Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger -- The pitfalls of getting from here to there : bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event coding in Yukatek Mayan / Jürgen Bohnemeyer -- Making sense of complex verbs: on the semantics and argument structure of closed-class verbs and coverbs in jaminjung / Eva Schultze-Berndt -- Figure-ground indeterminacy in descriptions of spatial relations : a construction grammar account / Sotaro Kita -- Learning verbs without boots and straps? the problem of 'give' in Saliba / Anna Margetts -- Participants present and absent : argument ellipsis and verb learning -- Same argument structure, different meanings : learning "put" and "look" in Arrernte / David Wilkins -- Verb specificity and argument realization in Tzeltal child language / Penelope Brown -- Interacting pragmatic influences on children's argument realization / Shanley E.M. Allen -- Transitivity, intransitivity, and their associated meanings : a complex work-space for learnability -- Intransitive verbs in Ewe and the unaccusativity hypothesis / James Essegbey -- He died old dying to be dead right: transitivity and semantic shifts of "die" in Ewe in crosslinguistic perspective / Felix Ameka -- Acquiring telicity cross-linguistically : on the acquisition of telicity entailments associated with transitivity / Angeliekan Hout -- The acquisition of the English causative alternation / Melissa Bowerman and William Croft -- What adverbs have to do with learning the meaning of verbs / Angelika Wittek -- Event realization in Tamil / Eric Pederson. Language acquisition. Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general Verb. Semantics. Bowerman, Melissa author. Brown, Penelope author. Book http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006025579-t.html Table of contents only FO UPD DMLS P118 .C767 2014 Book