The Acquisition of Verb Placement

Chapter 1 Introduction: Functional Categories and Verb Placement in Language Development

Chapter 2 The Acquisition of the Morphosyntax of Finite Verbs in English

Chapter 3 Functional Categories and Early Swedish

Chapter 4 Accessing Functional Categories in Sesotho: Interactions at the Morpho-Syntax Interface

Chapter 5 Finiteness and Verb Placement in Early Child Grammars: Evidence from Simultaneous Acquisition of French and German in Bilinguals

Chapter 6 Language Acquisition and Competing Linguistic Representations: The Child as Arbiter

Chapter 7 The Acquisition of Agreement Morphology and its Syntactic Consequences: New Evidence on German Child Language from the Simone-Corpus

Chapter 8 Verb Movement, Agreement, and Tense in L2 Acquisition

Chapter 9 The Ban on Parameter Resetting, Default Mechanisms, and the Acquisition of V2 in Bernese Swiss German

Chapter 10 Routes to Verb Placement in Early German and French: The Independence of Finiteness and Agreement

Chapter 11 From the Initial State to V2: Acquisition Principles in Action

Chapter 12 The Genesis of Clausal Structure

Chapter 13 Categories of First Syntax: Be , Be +ing, and Nothingness

Chapter 14 On the Acquisition of Functional Categories: A General Commentary