caa a22 4500 386359334 CHVBK 20180307111910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010412 doi S0305000900010412 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010412 Budwig Nancy Clark University The linguistic marking of agentivity and control in child language [Elektronische Daten] [Nancy Budwig] The present study examines the relationship between linguistic forms and the functions they serve in children's early talk about agentivity and control. The spontaneous linguistic productions of six children ranging between 1;8 and 2;8 served as the data base. Preliminary analyses of who the children referred to and what forms were used in subject position suggest that the children could be divided into two groups. Three children primarily referred to Self and relied on multiple Self reference forms in subject position, while the other children referred to both Self and Other and primarily used the Self reference form, I. A functional analysis was carried out to examine whether the seemingly interchangeable use of Self reference forms could be related to semantic and pragmatic patterns. The findings indicate that at a time before they regularly refer to others, the children systematically employed different Self reference forms to mark distinct perspectives on agency. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 263-284 0305-0009 16:2<263 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010412 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010412 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Budwig Nancy Clark University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 263-284 0305-0009 16:2<263 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge