The Development Of Modality In Greek And English Child Language

Author : Francesca Cangeri,Rosanna Cangeri
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 53 pages
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Release : 2007-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638669849

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The Development of Modality in Greek and English Child Language by Francesca Cangeri,Rosanna Cangeri Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: HS: The Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Numerous studies concerning the acquisition of modality in first language have been published. Linguists have carried out many experimental and longitudinal studies in order to find out how the modality category develops in child language. To obtain straight-forward results researcher practice pilot studies with children subjects. This method has proved to be effective for the gathering of useful data about the development of modality. The comparison and the studies of the obtained results should help to give a clear-cut insight into the ontogenesis of modality. This term paper reports about an experimental and longitudinal study of the development of modality of Greek children realized by the linguist Ursula Stephany. Further an analysis of the acquisition of modality of American English speaking children has been done in order to compare the differences and the common characteristics of the development of modality in two distinct languages. Before starting to observe the process of modality development I will give a brief introduction on modality and on its sub-types. The latter play an important role for the understanding of the process of modality acquisition. The term paper's chapter about modality is based on Frank Palmer's Mood and Modality.

Author : Ursula Stephany,Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504457

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Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition by Ursula Stephany,Ayhan Aksu-Koç Pdf

This book deals with the development of modality from a crosslinguistic perspective and is closely related to two earlier volumes on the development of verb and nominal inflection in first language acquisition (SOLA 21 and 30) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the form and function of expressions of deontic and dynamic agent-oriented modality or epistemic and evidential propositional modality in one of fourteen languages belonging to different morphological types and language families (seven Indo-European and seven non-Indo-European). The analyses are mainly based on longitudinal observations of children in their 2nd and 3rd years of life in conversational interaction with their caregivers, mostly the mothers. Main issues addressed are the development of directives and modulations of information in terms of certainty and evidentiality, also taking into account children’s developing social-pragmatic and cognitive skills. One of the main findings is that agent-oriented and propositional modality may develop in parallel depending on the typological characteristics of the language acquired. The decisive factor is whether notions of propositional modality are grammaticized and obligatorily expressed in the language. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical frameworks (Usage-based theories, Natural Morphology).

Author : Norbert Dittmar,Astrid Reich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110856996

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Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues by Norbert Dittmar,Astrid Reich Pdf

Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues

Author : Norbert Dittmar,Astrid Reich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110123789

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Modality in Language Acquisition by Norbert Dittmar,Astrid Reich Pdf

Author : Martin Howard,Pascale Leclercq
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266491

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Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language by Martin Howard,Pascale Leclercq Pdf

Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and counterfactuality, the effect of first language transfer, aspectuo-temporal comprehension, aspectuo-temporal marking at a wider discursive level, and methodological issues in the study of the acquisition of aspect. The studies presented explore English and French as second languages, involving both child and adult learners from a range of first language backgrounds in both instructed and naturalistic learning contexts. The studies draw on both spoken and written data which explore various facets of the learners’ second language comprehension and production. The volume offers new, but complementary insights to previous research, as well as pointing to directions for future research in this burgeoning field of study.

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Suzanne Fleischman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229250

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Modality in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Suzanne Fleischman Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.

Author : Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107086869

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The Changing English Language by Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger Pdf

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Author : Paul Fletcher,Michael Garman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521277809

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Language Acquisition by Paul Fletcher,Michael Garman Pdf

An invaluable resource for students and professionals alike with an interest in child language acquisition.

Author : Melita Stavrou,Arhonto Terzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294517

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Advances in Greek Generative Syntax by Melita Stavrou,Arhonto Terzi Pdf

This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one is an extensive analysis of the distribution of goal and beneficiary dative DPs in Greek (and cross-linguistically) and the other addresses the relation agree in small clauses (and between adjectives and nouns). Two articles study the acquisition of the left periphery and of eventivity and one focuses on the historical evolution of participles in Greek, out of which gerunds emerged. The syntax and semantics of wh-clauses in DP positions and of the non-volitional verb θelo are the focus of two articles situated in the syntax–semantics interface. The DP domain is approached by two theoretical articles, one on a Greek possessive adjective and another on determiner heads. The final contribution studies the acquisition of the Greek definite article.

Author : Philippe de Brabanter,Mikhail Kissine,Saghie Sharifzadeh
Publisher : Oxford Studies of Time in Lang
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199679157

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Future Times, Future Tenses by Philippe de Brabanter,Mikhail Kissine,Saghie Sharifzadeh Pdf

This volume examines the expression of the future in a range of diverse languages and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time and will be a valuable resource for all those working on time, tense, and temporal reference.

Author : Jean Quigley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135661946

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The Grammar of Autobiography by Jean Quigley Pdf

This is the first book to bring together four distinct literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative development, and discursive psychology. It is an outgrowth of the historical relationship between psychology and linguistics, especially the post-Wittgensteinian "turn to language." Relevant issues are situated at that interface in a way that should prove accessible to both linguists with little or no psychological knowledge and to psychologists with no linguistics background are addressed. Previously, there have been volumes on the theses of discursive psychology and social constructionism and volumes on the workings and theories of functional linguistics, but none have attempted to link the two as natural bedfellows in this way. While clearly situated within the spirit of the Berkeley school, it goes beyond it by virtue of linking functional linguistics and discursive psychology, and by doing this ontogenetically. Overall, this book is an investigation of the psycholinguistic thesis of the social construction of selfhood and the psychology of everyday life. Featuring the only book-length studies of the use of grammatical analysis as a research strategy in psychology, it integrates issues of human development and child language in a new way. It deals in careful linguistic analyses, examining the role of grammatical forms in constituting context which involves an examination of their functions that are then used to highlight fundamental aspects of development. The linguistic analyses are treated as a testing ground for the ideas and claims made in discursive psychology. The discussion deals with many of the current issues in psychology and related disciplines, including narrative, morality, agency, and responsibility, in order to show the central role of language in human functioning.

Author : Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228611

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Tense-aspect by Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker's reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies. The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including — in addition to the traditional semantics — also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.

Author : Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191646331

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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.

Author : SHARON ANN WILCOX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018966823

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CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF MODAL EXPRESSIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIVE CERTAINTY OF BELIEFS. by SHARON ANN WILCOX Pdf

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Author : Dan Isaac Slobin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317785811

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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition by Dan Isaac Slobin Pdf

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups--Finnish, Greek, and Korean. The chapters are selective, critical reviews rather than exhaustive summaries of the course of development of each language. Authors approach the language in question as a case study in a potential crosslinguistic typology of acquisitional problems, considering those data which contribute to issues of general theoretical concern in developmental psycholinguistics and linguistic theory. Each chapter, therefore, provides the following: * Grammatical Sketch of Language. Brief grammatical sketch of the language or language group, presenting those linguistic facts which are relevant to the developmental analysis. * Sources of Evidence. Summary of basic sources of evidence, characterizing methods of gathering data, and listing key references. * Overall Course of Development. Brief summary of the overall course of development in the language or language group, giving an idea of the general problems posed to the child in acquiring a language of this type, summarizing typical errors, domains of relatively error-free acquisition, and the timing of acquisition--areas of the grammar that show relatively precocious or delayed development in crosslinguistic perspective. * Data. Specific developmental aspects of the language examined in depth, depending on each individual language and available acquisition data. * Conclusions. An interpretive summary of theoretical points raised above, attending to general principles of language development and linguistic organization suggested by the study of a language of this type, plus comparisons with development of other languages.