This paper investigates the acquisition of Italian adverbs looking at children's early
spontaneous speech. The aims were twofold:(i) to determine the timing in which different …

An important issue in the theory of the syntax-semantics interface is the crosslinguistic
ambiguity of 'again'between a repetitive reading and a restitutive reading. The repetitive …

‘Again’ skipping in Mandarin Chinese Page 1 ‘Again’ skipping in Mandarin Chinese* Yuyang
Liu University of Massachusetts, Amherst Abstract This is a reformated version of my University …

Mandarin Chinese allows implicit, non-canonical, and quantity-objects. The first type is seen
in Wǒ zhǎo-guò-le 'Lit.: I looked for', which means 'I have looked for some entity that is …

Approximative constructions present special interest for acquisition due to the counterfactual
and scalar inferences they give rise to. In this paper we investigate the acquisition of Greek …

Availability of restitutive 'again'varies both cross-linguistically and language-internally. This
creates an acquisition puzzle: For each change-of-state predicate, how do children know if a …

This chapter addresses the co-existence of two morphological mechanisms to express the
causative-unaccusative alternation in Spanish: se and Ø. It has been observed that the …

Two types of resultative constructions that are unevenly distributed across languages (Talmy
2000) can be identified based on the lexicalization of manner and result meaning in the …

The idea of cyclicity in language change has intruded the analysis of a variety of linguistic
phenomena (cf. van Gelderen 2009, 2011 for multiple case studies). While morphosyntactic …

Like the adverb 'again'in many other languages, Mandarin you displays the
repetitive/restitutive ambiguity when it modifies a goal-PP (eg,'walk to the village'). This …