| | Preface | | |
1 | | Introduction by Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown | | 1 |
I | | Verb Meaning and Verb Syntax: Crosslinguistic Puzzles for Language Learners | | |
2 | | A Person, a Place, or a Thing? Whorfian Consequences of Syntactic Bootstrapping in Mopan Maya by Eve Danziger | | 29 |
3 | | The Pitfalls of Getting from Here to There: Bootstrapping the Syntax and Semantics of Motion Event Coding in Yukatek Maya by Jurgen Bohnemeyer | | 49 |
4 | | Making Sense of Complex Verbs: On the Semantics and Argument Structure of Closed-Class Verbs and Coverbs in Jaminjung by Eva Schultze-Berndt | | 69 |
5 | | Figure-Ground Indeterminacy in Descriptions of Spatial Relations: A Construction Grammar Account by Sotaro Kita | | 89 |
6 | | Learning Verbs without Boots and Straps? The Problem of Give in Saliba by Anna Margetts | | 111 |
II | | Participants Present and Absent: Argument Ellipsis and Verb Learning | | |
7 | | Same Argument Structure, Different Meanings: Learning Put and Look in Arrernte by David Wilkins | | 141 |
8 | | Verb Specificity and Argument Realization in Tzeltal Child Language by Penelope Brown | | 167 |
9 | | Interacting Pragmatic Influences on Childrens Argument Realization by Shanley E. M. Allen | | 191 |
III | | Transitvity, Intransitivity, and Their Associated Meanings: A Complex Work-Space for Learnability | | |
10 | | Intransitive Verbs in Ewe and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis by James Essegbey | | 213 |
11 | | He died old dying to be dead right: Transitivity and Semantic Shifts of Die in Ewe in Crosslinguistic Perspective by Felix K. Ameka | | 231 |
12 | | Acquiring Telicity Crosslinguistically: On the Acquisition of Telicity Entailments Associated with Transitivity by Angeliek van Hout | | 255 |
13 | | The Acquisition of the English Causative Alternation by Melissa Bowerman and William Croft | | 279 |
14 | | What Adverbs Have to Do with Learning the Meaning of Verbs by Angelika Wittek | | 309 |
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