Subject, topic and Sesotho passive  

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Demuth, Katherine A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 17 no. 1 (Feb. 1990), page 67-84.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Counter to findings in English, German and Hebrew, recent acquisition studies have shown that the passive is acquired early in several non-Indo-European languages. In an attempt to explain this phenomenon, this paper addresses certain typological phenomena which influence the early acquisition to passives in Sesotho, a southern Bantu language. After outlining the structure of the Sesotho passive and its synatctic and discourse functions, I examine Sesotho-speaking children's spontaneous use of passives, showing that the acquisition of passives in Sesotho is closely linked to the fact that Sesotho subjects must be discourse topics. I conclude that a detailed examination of how passive contructions interact with the other components of a given linguistic system is critical for developing a coherent and universally applicable theory of how passives are acquired.

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