Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition
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Faktivitat
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- ISBN 9783484304802
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 05 Oct 2003
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to factivity and its acquisition. Factive sentences such as >John forgot that he bought wine< presuppose the truth of the embedded complement. The author argues that factivity results from the interaction of lexical-semantic, syntactic, and discourse-semantic factors. Rigorously designed experiments and a detailed analysis of longitudinal corpora provide evidence that the multidimensionality is mirrored in the acquisition process by a stepwise mastery of its different components. This book should be of interest to advanced students and researchers in both theoretical linguistics and language acquisition.
