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In:Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 8] 1994
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1994

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Table of contents

Tables and Figuresvii

Abbreviationsix

Contributorsxi

Introduction: On the initial states of language acquisition1

Bonnie D. Schwartz

VP, Null Arguments and COMP Projections21

Crosslinguistic Evidence for Functional Projections in Early Child Grammar57

Viviane Déprez

The Seeds of Structure: A Syntactic analysis of the acquisition of Case marking85

Sonja Eisenbeiss

From Ajunct to Head119

Early Null Subjects and Root Null Subjects151

Asking Questions without CP’s? On the Acquisition of Root wh-questions in Bernese Swiss German and Standard German177

Succesful Cyclic Movement215

Rosalind Thornton

Early Acquisition of Scrambling in Japanese253

Direct Access to X’-Theory: Evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German265

Martha Young-Scholten

Word Order and Nominative Case in Non-Native Language Acquisition: A longitudinal study of (L1 Turkish) German Interlanguage317

Bonnie D. Schwartz

Optionality and the Initial State in L2 Development369

Index of Languages389

Index of Names391

Index of Subjects397