Little Words
 258 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9781589012547 (1589012542) eBook ISBN: 9781589015968 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection March 2009 LC: 2008029496 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Press Release |
Little Words
Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition
Congratulations to Ronald Leow! He has been awarded the 2008 AATSP Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in the college/university category.
Little Words is an interdisciplinary examination of the functions and change in the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and other "little words" that have played a central role in linguistic theory and in language acquisition research. Leading scholars present advanced research in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse function, historical development, variation, and acquisition by children and adults. Ronald P. Leow is an associate professor of Spanish applied linguistics and director of Spanish Language Instruction at Georgetown University. Héctor Campos is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, linguistics, and modern Greek at Georgetown University. Donna Lardiere is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere Part I: History 2. From "Two" to "Both": Historical Changes in the Syntax and Meaning of Oba in Slavic Agnieszka azorczyk and Roumyana Pancheva 3. When Small Worlds Collide: Morphological Reduction and Phonological Compensation in Old Leonese Contractions Minta Elsman and D. Eric Holt Part II: Phonology 4. Distinguishing Function Words from Content Words in Children's Oral Reading Carol Lord, Robert Berdan, and Michael Fender 5. Motivating Floating Quantifiers Lisa Rochman Part III: Syntax 6. Applicative Phrases Hosting Accusative Clitics Luis Sáez 7.The Little DE of Degree Constructions Remus Gergel 8. The Complementizer The Heather Lee Taylor 9. What is There When Little Words Are Not There?: Possible Implications for Evolutionary Studies Ljiljana Progovac 10. Spanish Personal a and the Antidative Omar Velázquez-Mendoza and Raúl Aranovich Part IV: Semantics 11.Predicting Argument Realization from Oblique Marker Semantics John Beavers 12. Aspect Selectors, Scales, and Contextual Operators: An Analysis of by Temporal Adjuncts Michael F. Thomas and Laura A. Michaelis 13. Distributive Effects of the Plural Marker -tul in Korean Jong Un Park Part V: Pragmatics 14. The Pragmatics of the French Discourse Markers donc and alors Stéphanie Pellet 15. "Little Words" in Small Talk: Some Considerations on the Use of the Pragmatic Markers man in English and macho/tío in Peninsular Spanish Laura Alba-Juez 16. Little Words that Could Impact One's Impression on Others: Greetings and Closings in Institutional Emails Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas Part VI: Acquisition 17. Instructed L2 Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish Melissa Bowles and Silvina Montrul 18. The Role of Pedagogical Tasks and Focus on Form in Acquisition of Discourse Markers by Advanced Language Learners Maria José de la Fuente 19. Article Acquisition in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish Tanja Kupisch, Merete Anderssen, Ute Bohnacker, and Neal Snape 20. A Continuum in French Children's Surface Realization of Auxiliaries Christina D. Dye |