Silent Instruments : Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian

syntactic mastery and the slower development of Instrument semantic recoverability, shedding new light on the acquisition of syntactically optional elements.By integrating syntax, semantics, and acquisition, Silent Instrumentsprovides a robust and empirically grounded framework that is readily applicable to cross-linguistic research and to other phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface. It will be of interest to linguists working on argument structure, optionality, language acquisition, and experimental and corpus-based approaches to grammar. [Publisher's Text]

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