The Use and Function of Nonfinite Root Clauses in Swedish Child Language  

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Josefsson, Gunlog

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 10 no. 4 (2002), page 273-320.
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The topic of this article is the use and structure of so-called nonfinite root clauses, including root infinitives and root supines, in Swedish child language. The follow- ing is an example: Child: pappa biira den daddy carry it (Markus, 1;11;12) An investigation of four Swedish child language corpora shows that children use nonfinite root clauses in a systematic way, that is, in contexts in which the target grammar requires auxiliary + nonfinite verb, and that the alternative with a finite main verb is used in contexts in which constructions with a finite main verb is used in the target grammar. I also show that children's use of root infinitives is closely associated with a particular speech act or speech function called the creative speech act. The canonical pattern for this speech act is modal ska ('shall, will') + verb in infmitive. I argue that the data presented support a Null Auxiliary Hypothesis, which implies that nonfinite root clauses contain a phonologically null auxiliary.

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