What is the structure of early sentences?

26 Fevereiro 2021, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia da Silva Dias Gonçalves Santos

Discussion of the homework (exercises allowing to train the analysis developed in the previous class and allowing to explore new data).Root infinitives (RIs), their distribution across languages and in the languages in which they are identified. A hypothesis accounting for RIs which focus the functional structure of early sentences: the Truncation Hypothesis (Rizzi, 1993/1994). The special case of RIs in atypical development (also attested in null subject languages). 

 

A note on the discussion centred on functional architecture extended to cases of agrammatism (the "Tree Pruning Hypothesis", Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997).