Acquiring causatives in Taiwan Southern Min

Bibliographic Data

ID20366993
AuthorsHuei-Ling Lin (National Chung Cheng University, corresponding author), Jane S Tsay (National Chung Cheng University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue2
Pages467-487
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000907008550
PMID18416868
OpenAlexW2125147838
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This case study is based on the longitudinal data of a girl (LYC, 1 ; 2–3 ; 3) acquiring Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) as her first language, and it aims to discover the overgeneralization pattern of children acquiring causatives in TSM. Among the three types of causative, the errors found in other languages are mostly with lexical causatives; however, in TSM, the errors occur with morphological and analytic causatives. Being an analytic language, TSM tends to spell out the causative meaning through morphological and analytic causatives and thus most errors occur with these two types. In contrast, lexical causatives, which contain a semantic element CAUSE, were acquired late; in the data collected (1 ; 2–3 ; 3) lexical causatives were not yet found. This case study provides evidence from TSM to show a different overgeneralization pattern

Causative · Linguistics · Spell · Verb · Gender Studies in Language · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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