ABSTRACT

This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|24 pages

The acquisition of pronouns and definite articles

Pragmatic and syntactic aspects

chapter 2|81 pages

Underspecification of the D-position

Evidence for expletive determiners in child language

chapter |2 pages

Conclusions