LINGUIST List 10.452

Fri Mar 26 1999

Qs: L1 acquisition and NSP, Body parts

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casilde a isabelli, L1 acquisition of the NSP

Jean-Pierre A Koenig, Body-parts

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Message 1: L1 acquisition of the NSP

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:15:09 -0600 (CST)
From: casilde a isabelli <isabellistudents.uiuc.edu>
Subject: L1 acquisition of the NSP


Is there anyone on the list that knows off-hand of any L1 acquisition studies of the Null Subject Parameter (besides Hyams), and the order in which its hypothesized three properties are acquired? I am studying L2 acquisition of the NSP properties and would like to build my bibliography with L1 studies. Thanks, Casilde Isabelli University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

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Message 2: Body-parts

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:52:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jean-Pierre A Koenig <jpkoenigacsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Body-parts


We are looking for literature on the semantic properties of terms like 'knee', 'belly', 'flank', 'hill', 'bluff'. These have the characteristic features that (1) the objects they designate are interior parts of larger objects (or of the surfaces of larger objects) which are (2)demarcated via boundaries which are vague or indeterminate. Examples of terms like this are found in the lexicon of body-parts and also in that of geography. Are there are other families of such terms?

Barry Smith, Jean-Pierre Koenig SUNY at Buffalo

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