Research on spontaneous language acquisition both in children learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a second language has shown that language deve

other aspects of developing grammars. And this is, indeed, what the contributions to this volume do. Parameterization of functional categories may, however, be

This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby disp

This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e.g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self-organization in generative gram

Research on spontaneous processes of language acquisition has shown that early learner systems are based on lexical structures. At some point in acquisition thi