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DEVELOPMENT OF MODALITY IN FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUI...

This book deals with the development of modality from a crosslinguistic perspective and is
closely related to two earlier volumes on the development of verb and nominal inflection in
first language acquisition (SOLA 21 and 30) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of
the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the form and function of
expressions of deontic and dynamic agent-oriented modality or epistemic and evidential
propositional modality in one of fourteen languages belonging to different morphological types
and language families (seven Indo-European and seven non-Indo-European). The analyses are
mainly based on longitudinal observations of children in their 2nd and 3rd years of life in
conversational interaction with their caregivers  mostly the mothers. Main issues addressed are
the development of directives and modulations of information in terms of certainty and
evidentiality  also taking into account children's developing social-pragmatic and cognitive
skills. One of the main findings is that agent-oriented and propositional modality may develop
in parallel depending on the typological characteristics of the language acquired. The decisive
factor is whether notions of propositional modality are grammaticized and obligatorily
expressed in the language. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical
frameworks (Usage-based theories  Natural Morphology).

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