LINGUIST List 8.880

Sun Jun 15 1997

TOC: Language Acquisition

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

MIT Working Papers in Linguistics presents.....:

"The Interpretation of Root Infinitives and Bare Nouns in Child
Language" (Proceedings of the IAP Workshop held in January at MIT)

edited by

Jeannette Schaeffer

MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics
Number 12



TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Temporal reference and eventivity in Root Infinitivals -
Frank Wijnen

The interpretation of Root Infinitive constructions in adult and child
German - Ingeborg Lasser

EVENTS as units of discourse representation in Root Infinitives -
Sergey Avrutin

On the interpretation of (Bare) object Nouns in child language -
Jeannette Schaeffer

The interpretation of Bare Nouns in semantics and syntax: inherent
possessors, pied-piping and Root Infinitives -
Tom Roeper and Ana Perez-Leroux



Now available through MITWPL for $7.
To order: please e-mail mitwplmit.edu

Jeannette C. Schaeffer
MIT - Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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Cambridge, MA 02139
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