Covert A-Movement In Child Serbo-Croatian: Evidence From The Involuntary State Construction

dc.contributor.author Ilic, Tatjana
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-13T01:53:49Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-13T01:53:49Z
dc.date.issued 2007-03-01
dc.description.abstract The involuntary state construction in Serbo-Croatian involves covert A-movement of the theme argument to the subject position, and is therefore predicted to be a problematic acquisition for children younger than five by both the A-chain Deficit Hypothesis (Borer and Wexler 1987, 1992), and the Universal Phase Re.quirement hypothesis (Wexler 2004). However, these predictions are contradicted by the results of this study. Since the involuntary state construction has no syntactic homophones, we conclude that the ability to represent A-chains resulting from covert movement of theme arguments is not dependent upon biological maturation.
dc.identifier.citation Ilic, Tatjana. 2007. Covert A-Movement In Child Serbo-Croatian: Evidence From The Involuntary State Construction. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics 38(2).
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/73213
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics
dc.relation.ispartofseries University of Hawai‘I at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.subject linguistics
dc.title Covert A-Movement In Child Serbo-Croatian: Evidence From The Involuntary State Construction
prism.volume 2007
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
wp-ilic.pdf
Size:
149.63 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description: