The Acquisition and Use of Yes-no Questions in English

A Corpus-Study from a usage-based perspective

von Ursula Kania

219 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in previous research: 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions (such as elliptical and declarative questions) in adult-to-adult as well as child(-directed) speech and the L1-acquisition of these structures. 2. The discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions, especially with regard to their influence on the acquisition process.

• Reihe: Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik. Serie A: Language Development
• ISBN: 9783823380689
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2016
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
• Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto