caa a22 4500 386359393 CHVBK 20180307111910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030500090001045X doi S030500090001045X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030500090001045X On children's uses of from, by and with in oblique noun phrases [Elektronische Daten] This study was designed to follow up children's early spontaneous uses of from to mark oblique agents by giving 40 children (aged 2; 5-6; 1), and 10 adults, grammatical and ungrammatical sentences containing from, with, and by to imitate and to repair. As predicted, children's imitations and repairs showed that (a) 2-year-olds produce from for agents, and with for instruments in imitation; and (b) as children get older, they shift to by for agents in their repairs, and keep from to mark locative sources. These findings support the hypothesis that when children first try to express oblique agents, before acquisition of conventional by, they choose from for this purpose because agents, as instigators of actions, are conceived of as the source of the action and its result. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Clark Eve V. Stanford University Carpenter Kathie L. University of Colorado Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 349-364 0305-0009 16:2<349 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500090001045X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500090001045X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clark Eve V. Stanford University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carpenter Kathie L. University of Colorado NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/2(1989-06), 349-364 0305-0009 16:2<349 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge