Language Acquisition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2007), pp. 75-113 (39 pages) This article focuses on the meaning of nonfinite clauses ("root infinitives") in Dutch and English child language. I present ...

Evidentiality and modality are interrelated linguistic phenomena that shape the way speakers encode and communicate their sources of knowledge and their degree of commitment to a proposition.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study replicates, in the aural mode, Leow's (1993) study on the effects of simplification, type of linguistic item, and second/foreign ...