Nontonal floating features as grammatical morphemes

Grammatical Morphemes and Conceptual Structure in Discourse Processing

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Where do grammatical morphemes come from? On the development of grammatical markers from lexical expressions, demonstratives, and question words

Research on grammaticalization has shown that grammatical morphemes are commonly derived from content words, notably from nouns and verbs. For instance, adpositions are frequently derived from body part terms (cf. Heine et al. 1991) and future tense auxiliaries are often based on motion verbs (cf. Bybee et al. 1994). Of course, not every grammatical marker can be traced back to a content word; ...

Accuracy Order of Grammatical Morphemes in Persian EFL Learners: Evidence for and against UG

This study addresses the acquisition of the morphological markers in Persian learners of English as a foreign language. To this end, the accuracy order of nine morphemes including plural –s, progressive –ing, copula be, auxiliary be, irregular past tense, regular past tense –ed, third person –s, possessive -ʼs and indefinite articles was studied in 6...

Prosodic Constraints on the Emergence of Grammatical Morphemes: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Germanic and Romance Languages

The changing status of 'filler syllables' on the way to grammatical morphemes.

The appearance of 'filler syllables' (called here PAEs, for Prefixed Additional Elements) in the late single-word period is analysed in relation to the emergence of grammatical morphemes, by confronting data from the longitudinal study of one child acquiring French, video-recorded between 1;3.2 and 2;2.6, with four hypotheses making different claims about the kind of language knowledge underlyi...