• ISBN13: 9781402085130
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publisher Imprint: Springer V
• Publication Date: January 1, 2008
• Pages: 355
• Original Price: GBP 129.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 509 grams

From the Back Cover

This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other.