Generative perspectives on language acquisition : empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and crosslinguistic comparisons

1. Tables and Figures 2. Abbreviations 3. Contributors 4. Introduction (by Clahsen, Harald) 5. The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation (by Harris, Tony) 6. Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition (by Radford, Andrew) 7. The Underspecification of Functional Categories in Early Grammar (by Hyams, Nina) 8. Lexical Learning in Early Syntactic Development (by Clahsen, Harald) 9. Strong Continuity, Parameter Setting and the Trigger Hierarchy: On the Acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German (by Penner, Zvi) 10. Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque (by Meisel, Jurgen M.) 11. Acquisition of Italian Interrogatives (by Guasti, Maria Teresa) 12. Root Infinitives, Clitics and Truncated Structures (by Haegeman, Liliane) 13. On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French (by Hamann, Cornelia) 14. Clitics in L2 French (by White, Lydia) 15. The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition (by Platzack, Christer) 16. The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition (by Roeper, Thomas) 17. How, Hang on a Minute: Some reflections on emerging orthodoxies (by Atkinson, Martin) 18. Index of Names 19. Index of Subjects