Misha Becker: 1 book
The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure
Animacy and Thematic Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the...
