Syntactic Development presents a broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development. Covering both theoretical and empirical issues, William O'Grady constructs an up-to-date picture of how children acquire the syntactic structure of English. O'Grady first offers an overview of the developmental data pertaining to a range of syntactic phenomena, including word order, subject drop, embedded clauses, wh-questions, inversion, relative clauses, passives, and anaphora. This study of the available empirical work on language acquisition is accompanied by a comprehensive…
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AcquisitionComparative and general GrammarEnglish languageGrammar, Comparative and generalLanguage acquisitionSyntaxGrammar, comparative and general, syntax
Contemporary linguistics
