The Acquisition and Use of Yes-no Questions in English : A Corpus-Study from a usage-based perspective

The Acquisition and Use of Yes-no Questions in English : A Corpus-Study from a usage-based perspective

Ursula Kania

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FörlagNarr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN9783823390688

This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in