Lyle Lustigman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lyle Lustigman is involved.
Articles
2021 Early collaborations: Adult-child and child-adult co-construction of ‘but’-clauses Interactional Linguistics 1:2, pp. 216–240 | Article
The present study examines the development of ‘but’-introduced clauses in adult-toddler conversations, distinguishing between autonomous productions (I wanna stay but we need to go) and adult-child co-constructed uses (Adult: we’re going home, Child:
but I wanna stay). Analyses covered… read more
2016 From opacity to transparency: Transitional categories in early Hebrew grammar Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 225–258 | Article
The paper considers Hebrew-acquiring children’s transition from pervasive non-marking to productive command of grammatical systems in three linguistic domains: verb inflection, predicate elaboration, and clause-combining. The first two are examined in longitudinal samples from three children… read more
2014 Emergent clause-combining in adult-child interactional contexts Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 281–300 | Article
The study analyzes early clause-combining (CC) complex syntax of three Hebrew-acquiring girls in self-initiated autonomous constructions compared to three types of interlocutor-supported contexts – by means of Affirmations (encouraging comments), Scaffolding (structural prompts), and… read more


