CONTENTS
Introduction: Functional Categories and Verb Placement in Language Development / J U ·· RGEN M. MEISEL = 1
The Acquisition of the Morphosyntax of Finite Verbs in English / ANDREW RADFORD = 23
Functional Categories and Early Swedish / CHRISTER PLATZACK = 63
Accessing Functional Categories in Sesotho: Interactions at the Morpho-Syntax Interface / KATHERINE DEMUTH = 83
Finiteness and Verb Placement in Early Child Grammars: Evidence from Simultaneous Acquisition of French and German in Bilinguals / J U ·· RGEN M. MEISEL ; NATASCHA M U ·· LLER = 109
Language Acquisition and Competing Linguistic Representations: the Child as Arbiter / IRA GAWLITZEK-MAIWALD ; ROSEMARIE TRACY ; AGNES FRITZENSCHAFT = 139
The Acquisition of Agreement Morphology and its Syntactic Consequences: New Evidence on German Child Language from the Simone-Corpus / HARALD CLAHSEN ; MARTINA PENKE = 181
Verb Movement, Agreement, and Tense in L2 Acquisition / LYNN EUBANK = 225
The Ban on Parameter Resetting, Default Mechanisms, and the Acquisition of V2 in Bernese Swiss German / ZVI PENNER = 245
Routes to Verb Placenment in Early German and French: The Independence of Finiteness and Agreement / MAAIKE VERRIPS ; J U ·· RGEN WEISSENBORN = 283
From the Initial State to V2: Acquisition Principles in Action / THOMAS ROEPER = 333
The Genesis of Clausal Structure / NINA HYAMS = 371
Categories of First Syntax: Be, Be+ing, and Nothingness / VIRGINIA VALIAN = 401
On the Acquisition of Functional Categories: A General Commentary / JILL DE VILLIERS = 423
INDEX = 445
