The Parametrization of Universal Grammar. by Fanselow, Gisbert

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In Search of Universal Grammar : From Old Norse to Zoque /

Table of Contents: “…In Search of Universal Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. …”
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Meaning and universal grammar. theory and empirical findings /...

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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar. by Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Acquisition of Spanish Middle and Impersonal Passive Constructions from SLA and TLA Perspectives; Chapter 2 Language Transfer in the Acquisition of the Semantic Contrast in L3 Spanish; Chapter 3 Multilingual Universal Grammar as the Norm; Chapter 4 UG and L3 Acquisition: New Insights and More Questions; Chapter 5 Transfer in L3 Acquisition: The Role of Typology; Chapter 6 L3 Enhanced Feature Sensitivity as a Result of Higher Proficiency in the L2.…”
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Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition. by White, Lydia

Table of Contents: “…Testing for principles of Universal Grammar; 4. The effects of parameters in second language acquisition; 5. …”
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Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation. by Alexiadou, Artemis

Table of Contents: “…Alan Hall -- Typological implications of a directionality constraint on projections / Hubert Haider -- Universal grammar and the typology of ergative languages / Anoop Mahajan -- Some properties of ellipsis in coordination / Chris Wilder -- Deriving the parameterisation of the mapping hypothesis / David Adger -- Syntactic dependencies and their properties : weak islands / M. …”
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Switch reference and universal grammar : proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981 /

Table of Contents: “…SWITCH-REFERENCE AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; SWITCH REFERENCE IN TWO QUECHUA LANGUAGES; SWITCH-REFERENCE IN HUICHOL A TYPOLOGICAL STUDY; SOME FEATURES OF INTERCLAUSAL REFERENCE IN KEWA; TOPIC CONTINUITY IN DISCOURSE: THE FUNCTIONAL DOMAIN OF SWITCH REFERENCE; SWITCHREFERENCE, CLAUSE ORDER, AND INTERCLAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS IN MARICOPA1; ON SOME ORIGINS OF SWITCH REFERENCE MARKING; REFERENTIAL TRACKING IN NUNGGUBUYU (AUSTRALIA).…”
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Semantic primes and universal grammar : empirical evidence from the Romance languages /

Table of Contents: “…Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Typographical conventions and symbols; Preface; Scope and contents of this volume; The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach; Romance versions of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage; Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance; NSM exponents and universal grammar in Romance; NSM exponents and universal grammar in Romance; NSM exponents and universal grammar in Romance.…”
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XP-adjunction in universal grammar : scrambling and binding in Hindi-Urdu / by Kidwai, Ayesha, 1967-

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Universal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages /

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Universal grammar in second language acquisition : a history / by Thomas, Margaret (Margaret Ann), 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ancient Greece and Rome -- Languages and language learning from late antiquity to the Carolingian renaissance -- The Middle Ages -- From discovery of the particular to seventeenth-century universal languages -- General grammar through the nineteenth century -- Conceptualization of universal grammar and second language learning in the twentieth century.…”
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Point counterpoint : universal grammar in the second language /

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Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, Philosophical Analysis : Papers in the Philosophy of Language. by Buzzetti, Dino

Table of Contents: “…Peirce's analysis of the proposition: grammatical and logical aspectsthe logics of frege's contemporaries, or "der verderbliche einbruch der psychologie in die logik"; husserl, language, and the ontology of the act; strategies in universal grammar: the case of meaning postulates in classical montague grammar; index nominum; index rerum.…”
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Subject inversion in Romance and the theory of universal grammar /

Table of Contents: “…Subject positions in Romance and the theory of universal grammar / Aafke Hulk and Jean-Yves Pollock -- On inversion in wh-questions in Romance / Pilar Barbosa -- "Inversion" as focalization / Adriana Belletti -- Marked versus unmarked inversion and optimality theory / João Costa -- New thoughts on stylistic inversion / Richard S. …”
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Universal grammar in child second language acquisition : null subjects and morphological uniformity / by Lakshmanan, Usha

Table of Contents: “…UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Syntactic Theory and Child Second Language Acquisition; 2 Theoretical Framework; 3 Null Subjects in Developing Grammars; 4 Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child L2 Grammars; 5 Discussion and Conclusions; References; Index.…”
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Impossible persons by Harbour, Daniel

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Modes of modality : modality, typology, and universal grammar /

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Tense and aspect in Romance languages : theoretical and applied linguistics

Table of Contents: “…Acquisition of tense and aspect in L2 French from a universal grammar perspective /…”
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Looking at language by Klein, Wolfgang

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Variation, Selection, Development : Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change. by Eckardt, Regine

Table of Contents: “…Inflectional morphology and universal grammar: post hoc versus propter hoc --…”
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Interlinguistics : aspects of the science of planned languages

Table of Contents: “…Degree words in Esperanto and categories in Universal Grammar --…”
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Generative linguistics : a historical perspective by Newmeyer, Frederick J.

Table of Contents: “…chapter 7 Linguistic diversity and universal grammar --…”
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The Current State of Interlanguage : Studies in Honor of William E. Rutherford

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Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development by Francis, Norbert

Table of Contents: “…Is Second Language Competence Universal Grammar-Constrained? --…”
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Essays in speech act theory

Table of Contents: “…ESSAYS IN SPEECH ACT THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I: General Theory; Chapter 2: Universal Grammar and Speech Act Theory; Chapter 3: Verbal Moods and Sentence Moods in the Tradition of Universal Grammar; Chapter 4: How Performatives Work; Chapter 5: Possible Directions of Fit between Mind, Language and the World; Part II: Discourse and Interlocution; Chapter 6: Speech Acts and the logic of mutual understanding; Chapter 7: Utterance acts and speech acts; Chapter 8: An Ascription-Based Theory of Illocutionary Acts.…”
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Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. by Doughty, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA; 2 On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language; 3 The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar; 4 Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure; 5 Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals:The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations; 6 Near-Nativeness; 7 Language Socialization in SLA; 8 Social Context; 9 Input and Interaction; 10 Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement.…”
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More than nature needs : language, mind, and evolution by Bickerton, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Wallace's problem -- Generative theory -- The "specialness" of humans -- From animal communication to protolanguage -- Universal grammar -- Variation and change -- Language "acquisition" -- Creolization -- Homo sapiens loquens.…”
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More than nature needs : language, mind, and evolution by Bickerton, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Wallace's problem -- Generative theory -- The "specialness" of humans -- From animal communication to protolanguage -- Universal grammar -- Variation and change -- Language "acquisition" -- Creolization -- Homo sapiens loquens.…”
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Chomsky : a guide for the perplexed by Collins, John, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Problems with the Chomskys -- Methodological foundations -- Transformations -- The "cognitive turn" : nativism and universal grammar -- The review of Skinner -- Language : inside or outside the mind? …”
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Language Transfer in Language Learning : Revised edition. by Gass, Susan M.

Table of Contents: “…Language Transfer And Fossilization: The Multiple Effects Principle -- 12. Universal Grammar: Is it Just a New Name for Old Problems?…”
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Investigating Second Language Acquisition. by Lalleman, Josine

Table of Contents: “…General introduction; The state of the art in second language acquisition research; Crosslinguistic influence with special reference to the acquisition of grammar; Methodological issues; Second language acquisition by adult immigrants: A multiple case study of Turkish and Moroccan learners of Dutch; Processing; Some experimental tasks in the study of word recognition; Strategies; Syntax: Principles; Universal grammar in second language acquisition; Are there principles of universal grammar that do not apply to second language acquisition?…”
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Foundations of language : brain, meaning, grammar, evolution by Jackendoff, Ray, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The complexity of linguistic structure -- Language as a mental phenomenon -- Combinatoriality -- Universal grammar -- The parallel architecture -- Lexical storage versus online construction -- Implications for processing -- An evolutionary perspective on the architecture -- Semantics as a mentalistic enterprise -- Reference and truth -- Lexical semantics -- Phrasal semantics.…”
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Parameter setting in language acquisition by Ayoun, Dalila, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Parameter-(re)setting theory; 4 Parameters of Universal Grammar; 5 Experimental studies in first and second language acquisition; 6 Revisiting traditional assumptions; 7 Conclusion; Note; Appendix: Languages exhibiting null subjects/arguments; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index.…”
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Chomskyan (r)evolutions

Table of Contents: “…Hyman -- What do we talk about, when we talk about "universal grammar", and how have we talked about it? / Margaret Thomas -- Migrating propositions and the evolution of generative grammar / Marcus Tomalin -- Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics : the first "superhominid" and the language faculty / Christopher Hutton -- The evolution of meaning and grammar : Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization / T. …”
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What counts as evidence in linguistics : the case of innateness

Table of Contents: “…An introduction; Typological evidence and Universal Grammar; Remarks on the relation between language typology and Universal Grammar. …”
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Syntax : an introduction to minimalism by Gelderen, Elly van

Table of Contents: “…Generative Grammar -- 1. Universal Grammar -- 2. Parameters: From syntax to lexicon -- 3. …”
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Past participle agreement : a study on the grammaticalization of formal features by Vega Vilanova, Jorge

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical background: Universal grammar and language change -- 5. On clausal structure and universal grammar -- 5.1 Universal grammar and the clausal spine…”
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Pragmatics and semantics : an empiricist theory by Kates, Carol A., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…An Empiricist Accountof Universals -- The Formation of Classes -- The Arguments against Classical Empiricism -- 9. Universal Grammar -- 10. The Authority of Logical Truth -- Traditional Empiricism and the Problem of Psychologism -- The Law of Contradiction -- The Law of Contradiction and Logical Deduction -- 11. …”
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Multilingual Matters 121 : a Dynamic Model of Multilingualism : Perspectives of Change in Psycholinguistics. by Herdina, Philip

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Acronyms""; ""Chapter 1 Introductory Remarks""; ""Chapter 2 Stages in Research on Multilingualism""; ""Chapter 3 Transfer Reconsidered""; ""Chapter 4 Universal Grammar Reviewed""; ""Chapter 5 Multilingual Proficiency Reassessed""; ""Chapter 6 A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism Developed""; ""Chapter 7 A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism Analysed""; ""Chapter 8 Holism Defended: A Systems Interpretation""; ""Chapter 9 Limitations, Conclusions and Outlook""; ""References""; ""Index""…”
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Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language. by Thomas, Margaret

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