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Aspects of the acquisition of object control and ECM-type verbs in European Portuguese

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Resumo:We investigate the acquisition of sentential complementation under causative, perception, and object control verbs in European Portuguese, a language rich in complement types including the typologically marked inflected infinitives. We tested 58 children between 3 and 5 years and 24 adults on a sentence completion task. The results support two main hypotheses concerning children’s initial biases in representing complement structure. The first pertains to argument structure - a verb selects only one internal (propositional) argument (Single Argument Selection Hypothesis), the other to syntactic structure – propositional complements are complete functional complements (Complete Functional Complement Hypothesis). These initial biases lead children to avoid raising-to-object and object control structures, in favor of finite complements and inflected infinitive complements, the latter appearing in both target and non-target contexts.
Autores principais:Santos, Ana Lúcia
Outros Autores:Gonçalves, Anabela; Hyams, Nina
Assunto:Raising-to-object Object control Inflected infinitive Portuguese
Ano:2016
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:artigo
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade de Lisboa
Idioma:português
Origem:Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

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