ABSTRACT
Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion. In engaging, up-to-date articles, distinguished experts examine the role of features in current versions of generative grammar and in learnibility theory as it relates to native, non-native, and impaired acquisition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|120 pages
Linguistic Theory and Learnability
part II|158 pages
Determiner Phrase–Related Features
part III|214 pages
Inflection Phrase and Aspect Phrase-Related Features
part IV|48 pages
Complementizer Phrase–Related Features