Misha Becker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Misha Becker is involved.

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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.

Articles

Becker, Misha and Jeannette Schaeffer 2013 Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 13–34 | Article

We offer evidence that children correctly represent unaccusative verbs as taking a single internal argument, rather than an external argument, and they raise this argument to subject position via A-movement, contra Babyonyshev et al. (2001). Our primary evidence comes from the distribution of… read more

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

Becker, Misha 2002 The development of the copula in Child English: The lightness of be Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 2 (2002), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen (eds.), pp. 37–58 | Article

The dissertation summarized here provides an account of the fact that young children acquiring English (around age 2) often produce utterances like (1), in which they omit a form of the copula, be. (1)I in the kitchen. Children’s production of forms like (1) is interesting for two main reasons:… read more