This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the language of adults talking to the children or in the presence of the children. The remaining chapters present overviews of previous research: on the acquisition of word formation rules, the noun phrase, and wh-questions. The introduction to this volume contains a concise overview of the basic features of Swedish grammar and a comprehensive overview of different Swedish child language corpora. The main body of research proceeds within a generative framework, but the text is designed to be accessible to researchers of different theoretical paradigms. Table of contentsIntroductionGunlög Josefsson and Christer Platzack 1–21Swedish language learner corporaGisela Håkansson 23–29The Acquisition of TenseLisa Christensen 31–74Word formationIngmarie Mellenius 75–93Input and output: Sentence Patterns in Child and Adult SwedishGunlög Josefsson 95–133The Verb PhraseChrister Platzack 135–154Non-target Structures and Non-target Uses in Child and Adult SwedishGunlög Josefsson 155–193Nominal phrasesUte Bohnacker 195–260The Acquisition of Swedish Wh-uestionsLynn Santelmann 261–307Index 309