Michael Tomasello 2003 Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition Harvard Univ.Press

目次

1. Usage-Based Linguistics

2. Origins of Language
2.1. Phylogenetic Origins
2.2. Ontogenetic Origins
2.3. Children's First Utterances
2.4. Summary

3. Words
3.1. Early Words and their Uses
3.2. Processes of Word Learning
3.3. Theories of Word Learning
3.4. Summary

4. Early Syntactic Constructions
4.1. The Nature of Constructions
4.2. Early Constructional Islands
4.3. Marking Syntactic Roles
4.4. Summary

5. Abstract Syntactic Constructions
5.1. Abstract Constructions
5.2. Constructing Constructions
5.3. Constraining Constructions
5.4. Theories of Syntactic Development
5.5. Summary

6. Nominal and Clausal Constructions
6.1. Reference and Nominals
6.2. Predication and Clauses
6.3. Learning Morphology
6.4. Summary

7. Complex Constructions and Discourse
7.1. Complex Constructions
7.2. Conversation and Narrative
7.3. Summary

8. Biological, Cultural, and Ontogenetic Processes
8.1. Dual Inheritance
8.2. Psycholinguistic Processes of Acquisition
8.3. Psycholinguistic Processes of Production
8.4. The Development of Linguistic Representation
8.5. Summary

9. Toward a Psychology of Language Acquisition

References
Acknowledgments
Index