Generative Linguistics and Acquisition

1. Introduction (by Becker, Misha); 2. Part I. Argument structure and clause-internal syntax in children; 3. Animacy, argument structure and unaccusatives in child English (by Becker, Misha); 4. Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children's passive acquisition (by Sano, Tetsuya); 5. Early or late acquisition of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese?: Evidence from spontaneous production data (by Santos, Ana Lucia); 6. The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English (by Schutze, Carson); 7. The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI (by Grinstead, John); 8. Part II. The DP domain; 9. The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children (by Sigurjonsdottir, Sigridur); 10. Pronouns vs. definite descriptions (by Johnson, Kyle); 11. An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds (by Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa); 12. The syntactic domain of content (by Borer, Hagit); 13. Part III. Learning theory; 14. There-insertion: How Internal Merge guides the acquisition path (by Roeper, Tom); 15. Metalinguistic skills of children (by Cairns, Helen); 16. Children's Grammatical Conservatism: New evidence (by Sugisaki, Koji); 17. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies (by Belletti, Adriana); 18. A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children: Information-structure meets phasal computation (by Wexler, Kenneth); 19. Index