John Grinstead

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List of John Benjamins publications in which John Grinstead is involved.

Journal

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics

Published under the auspices of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics

Edited by Francisco Alonso-Almeida and Giovanni Garofalo

ISSN 0213-2028 | E‑ISSN 2254‑6774

Titles

Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams

Edited by Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman

The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 54] 2013. vi, 358 pp.

Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development

Edited by John Grinstead

This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 50] 2009. xix, 304 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman 2013 Introduction Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Grinstead, John, Dan McCurley, Teresa Pratt, Patrick Obregon and Blanca Flores 2013 The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article

Children with SLI manifest difficulties with tense, however it is not clear whether it is limited to morphosyntax or extends to semantics. Typically-developing children show a bias towards using the telicity of predicates to guide their use of grammatical aspect and tense – possibly for information… read more

Grinstead, John 2009 Introduction Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. xiii–xx | Article

Grinstead, John, Juliana De la Mora Gutiérrez, Amy Pratt and Blanca Flores 2009 Temporal interface delay and root nonfinite verbs in Spanish-Speaking children with specific language impairment: Evidence from the grammaticality choice task Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 239–264 | Article

Existing research into specific language impairment in Spanish utilizes primarily spontaneous production data and concludes that children do not have problems with verb finiteness. In contrast, we show, through a new receptive measure, the “Grammaticality Choice Task”, that the distribution of the… read more

Vargas-Tokuda, Marissa, John Grinstead and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach 2009 Context and the Scalar Implicatures of Indefinites in Child Spanish Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 93–116 | Article

In this chapter we review current work on the semantics-pragmatics interface in the adult language and present a description, from earlier work, of the distinct distribution and properties of two Spanish indefinite determiners: unos and algunos. We evaluate the degree to which current theories are… read more

Grinstead, John 1998 Negation and Independent Morphological Development Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives, Schwegler, Armin, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), pp. 97–110 | Article