Joan Sawyer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joan Sawyer is involved.

Article

Sawyer, Joan 2001 Bifurcating the verb particle construction: Evidence from child language Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 1 (2001), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen (eds.), pp. 119–156 | Article

In the literature, John threw the ball up and The baby threw his dinner up have both been treated as members of the set of verb particle constructions (VPC). Syntactic evidence from action nominalizations, insertion of degree adverbials, contrastive stress, and gapped constructions (Fraser, 1976)… read more