TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wittek,Angelika
TI  - Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs: A case study of German child language 
T2  - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ,
SN  - 9783110173048
AV  - P118 .W55 2002
U1  - 401/.93 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - German language
KW  - Acquisition
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Verb
KW  - Language acquisition
KW  - Bedeutungserlernung
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - i-iv --; Contents --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn’t --; Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis --; Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate --; Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning --; Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis --; Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children’s semantic representations of change-of-state verbs --; Appendices --; Notes --; References --; Subject index --; Author index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907988
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110907988
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110907988/original
ER  -