caa a22 4500 386359601 CHVBK 20180307111911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010734 doi S0305000900010734 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010734 Kim Young-Joo Harvard University Theoretical implications of complement structure acquisition in Korean [Elektronische Daten] [Young-Joo Kim] The Acquisition Of Complement Phrasal Constructions In Korean Is Examined In Spontaneous Speech Data From Two Children, Who Were Observed From One And A Half To Three Years Of Age. In Spite Of Typological Differences Between English And Korean, Both Syntactic And Semantic Characteristics are found to be shared by children acquiring complement constructions in the two languages. however, certain language-specific features of korean complement structures make it possible to address theoretical points concerning the structure of infinitival complements which cannot be resolved with the acquisition data on English. The error pattern in the acquisition of certain ‘subject-equi' verbs in Korean poses problems both for LEG and GB accounts of the constituent structure of infinitival complements and the acquisition of those constructions. On the basis of the Korean data, I propose that base-generated VP complements are acquired first, with semantically motivated reanalysis of previously acquired infinitival complement structures occurring at a later stage. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 573-598 0305-0009 16:3<573 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010734 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010734 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kim Young-Joo Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 573-598 0305-0009 16:3<573 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge