Cécile De Cat
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cécile De Cat is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0928-1533
Title
The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure
Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.
2025 Individual language experience determinants of morphosyntactic variation in heritage and attriting speakers of Bosnian and Serbian: A causal inference approach Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:6, pp. 776–811 | Article
Using a causal inference approach, we explored the relationships among the language experience determinants of morphosyntactic sensitivity, to identify the factors that indirectly and directly cause its acquisition or maintenance in immigration contexts. We probed the sensitivity to… read more
2022 A constellation of continua: Reconceptualising bilingualism, autism and language research Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 59–64 | Commentary
2015 The cognitive underpinnings of referential abilities The Acquisition of Reference, Serratrice, Ludovica and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 263–283 | Article
The aim of the chapter is to take stock and bring together fields of enquiry relevant to the investigation of preschool children’s referential abilities. After an appraisal of the evidence as to what adults’ referential abilities really are, the key cognitive prerequisites for unhindered… read more
2012 Towards an interface definition of root phenomena* Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 135–158 | Article
Root phenomena are those that typically occur in matrix clauses but are also allowed in a restricted set of embedded (“root-like”) clauses. This paper explores root phenomena with an interpretive import, and identifies three kinds of data that a purely syntactic approach cannot account for: the… read more
2006 Do root infinitives ever have an overt subject in child French? Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 57–76 | Article
2004 On the Impact of French Subject Clitics on the Information Structure of the Sentence Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Article
2004 Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 French The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 51–88 | Article
2004 Early ‘Pragmatic’ Competence and its Implications regarding the Null Subject Phenomenon Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 17–32 | Article