The acquisition of the locative subject construction in Mandarin: An aspectual account

•Mandarin locative subject sentences (LSSs) only allow (derived) State verbs.•Aspectually marked LSSs are extremely rare in preschooler's speech.•Children showed low sensitivity to LSSs’ aspectual properties in the experiment.•Late acquisition caused by insufficient input, and the construction&...

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Published in:	Lingua Vol. 241; p. 102833
Main Author:	Deng, Xiangjun
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.07.2020 Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:	Adults Argument structure Aspect marker Aspect shift Children Data Event type Grammatical aspect Grammatical case Grammatical subject Information structure Input frequency Interfaces Mandarin Mandarin locative subject construction Pragmatics Property Semantics Syntactic structures Syntax Syntax pragmatics interface Syntax semantics relationship Verbs Mandarin locative subject construction Input frequency Aspect shift Event type Aspect marker
ISSN:	0024-3841, 1872-6135
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