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Acouisition of the Russian Case Svstem*
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Babyonyshev, Maria Wexler, Ken Rozhansky, Fyodor |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | / I will pursue two goals in this paper: testing the predictions concerning Case made by the lexical-themafic analysis of early grammars and giving a detailed // description of the acquisition of the Russian case system. The lexical-thematic '/ analysis has been developed by Radford (1986, 1990) 1 to explain the apparent lack of functional categories and non-thematic elements, as well as movement associated with properties of functional categories, in the speech of children acquiring English. The central claim of the lexical-thematic analysis is that the grammars of children, although constrained by UG at all stages, pass through a stage in which all functional categories are absent and only lexical categories that enter into thematic relations are present. Since (at least structural) Case is checked in the Specifier position of a projection headed by a functional element, such as AgrS, AgrO. or Det, no Case-checking can occur in a grammar that lacks functional categories. In the lexical-thematic analysis, the Case Filter, that is, the requirement that all nouns be Case-marked (or must check their Case features), is taken to refer to DPs, not NPs. so that it is satisfied vacuously, ' since child grammars contain no DPs, but only NPs. Thus, there can be no |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://people.csail.mit.edu/gremio/Grembrary/acquisition/cla-03-agreement-and-case/babyonyshev-1993.PDF |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
