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Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
1.1 | Cognitive Linguistics and the developmental approach | 2 |
1.2 | The importance of verbs | 6 |
1.3 | Plan of the monograph | 7 |
2 | In the beginning was the verb | 9 |
2.1 | Children's first verbs | 9 |
2.2 | Children's first sentences | 20 |
2.3 | Goals and hypotheses of the study | 29 |
3 | Methods and an introduction to T's language | 30 |
3.1 | The diary | 30 |
3.2 | Determining meaning | 33 |
3.3 | Semantic analysis of verbs | 35 |
3.4 | Syntactic analysis of sentences | 38 |
3.5 | T's earliest language | 40 |
4 | Change of state verbs and sentences | 44 |
4.1 | Presence, absence, and recurrence of objects | 44 |
4.2 | Presence, absence, and recurrence of activities | 60 |
4.3 | Exchange and possession of objects | 69 |
4.4 | Location of objects | 82 |
4.5 | Movement of objects | 91 |
4.6 | State of objects | 101 |
5 | Activity verbs and sentences | 114 |
5.1 | Activities involving objects | 115 |
5.2 | Activities not involving objects | 135 |
6 | Other grammatical structures | 147 |
6.1 | Sentences without verbs | 148 |
6.2 | Grammatical morphology | 154 |
6.3 | Complex sentences | 179 |
6.4 | Summary | 185 |
7 | The development of T's verb lexicon | 187 |
7.1 | Cognitive bases of T's early verbs | 187 |
7.2 | Contexts for early verb learning | 204 |
7.3 | Processes of early lexical development | 209 |
7.4 | Summary | 219 |
8 | The development of T's grammar | 222 |
8.1 | Constructing sentences: Symbolic integration and syntactic devices | 225 |
8.2 | Constructing a grammar: The Verb Island hypothesis | 238 |
8.3 | Processes of early grammatical development | 257 |
8.4 | Summary | 262 |
9 | Language acquisition as cultural learning | 264 |
9.1 | Summary of major findings | 264 |
9.2 | A speculation on the human capacity for language | 267 |
9.3 | Later development | 271 |
9.4 | Conclusion | 273 |
References | 275 | |
Appendix | 285 | |
Index | 371 |
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