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The development of Light-'do' Verb Constructions in Italian
Quochi Valeria
Javier Martín Arista
Quochi, Valeria
child language
construction grammar
light verb constructions
This contribution presents the results of a study of the development of Light 'do' Verb Constructions in Italian based on naturalistic data. The claim is that there exists a Light Verb pivot schema that accounts for new productive formations and that this pattern is learnt by young children because it constitutes a labeling technique for naming new events, activities and situations. The findings of
this research support two hypotheses of language acquisition. The results are based on analysis of longitudinal transcriptions of adult children interactions contained in the CHILDES databank (MacWhinney 2000).
2011
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14243/225688
http://sle2011.cilap.es/downloads/book_abstracts.pdf
eng
ispartofbook:SLE 2011 - 44TH ANNUAL MEETING BOOK OF ABSTRACT
SLE 2011 - 44 TH ANNUAL MEETING
firstpage:256
lastpage:257
alleditors:Javier Martín Arista