Outputs (12)

Are infinitival to omission errors primed by prior discourse? The case of WANT constructions (2011)
Journal Article

This paper examines the suggestion that infinitival to omission errors in English-speaking children can result from competition between two constructions (Kirjavainen et al. 2009a). Kirjavainen et al. suggested that the acquisition of two (or more) c... Read More about Are infinitival to omission errors primed by prior discourse? The case of WANT constructions.

Mosetén and Chimane argument coding: A layered system (2011)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the argument-coding system of Mosetenan, a small language family spoken in the Bolivian Amazon. While there is no case marking on nouns, all coding of arguments is found in the cross-reference ending of verbs. Intransitive verbs... Read More about Mosetén and Chimane argument coding: A layered system.

Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a major new research project in surname studies in Britain. The project is called Family Names of the United Kingdom (abbreviated to FaNUK). It is a 4-year project based at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West o... Read More about Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics.

A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective (2011)
Thesis

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, a... Read More about A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective.

Operationalizing and measuring language dominance (2011)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to show how measures of lexical richness (Guiraud, 1954; Malvern, Richards, Chipere, & Durán, 2004) can be used to operationalize and measure language dominance among bilinguals. A typology of bilinguals is proposed based o... Read More about Operationalizing and measuring language dominance.

Language dominance in Turkish-German bilinguals: Methodological aspects of measurements in structurally different languages (2011)
Journal Article

The purpose of this study is to establish measures of language dominance in bilinguals who speak structurally different languages, in our case German and Turkish, with tools that are based on fluency and oral proficiency. A 'balanced' bilingual with... Read More about Language dominance in Turkish-German bilinguals: Methodological aspects of measurements in structurally different languages.

Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish (2011)
Journal Article

The present paper reports on a study that investigated the role of procedural and declarative memory in the acquisition of Finnish past tense morphology. Two competing models were tested. Ullman's (2004) declarative/procedural model predicts that pro... Read More about Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish.

The measurement of lexical richness (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Co-convener of this colloquium organisation with Scott Jarvis (Ohio University).

Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German (2011)
Journal Article

In the present article we provide evidence for the occurrence of transfer of conceptualization patterns in narratives of two German-Turkish bilingual groups. All bilingual participants grew up in Germany, but only one group is still resident in Germa... Read More about Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German.

Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (2011)
Journal Article

In several recent papers (Coates 2005a, 2005b, 2006a) I have suggested an approach to name theory which I have called a pragmatic theory of properhood, or, if I may elevate the descriptive phrase iconically into a proper name, The Pragmatic Theory of... Read More about Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood.

Neuter heteroclisis in Asia Minor Greek: Origin and development (2011)
Journal Article

The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input (2011)
Book Chapter

Little research has been conducted to date investigating Finnish children’s relative clause acquisition. We report a study on the emergence of these structures in one Finnish speaking child’s corpus between the ages of 1;7 – 3;6. The study focuses on... Read More about The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input.