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Utterances without Function Words: Comment on Christer Platzack's paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Peter Jordens
Peter Jordens
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Free University of Amsterdam
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With respect to child English, Radford has claimed that there are no functional categories in early child syntax. This means that in English, children's grammer lacks both the C-projection and the I-projection. For Swedish, Platzack also hypothesizes that “there are no functional categories [like C or I] in early child syntax” (p. 107).

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 127 - 133
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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