Infinitivos raiz e sujeitos nulos nos primeiros estádios de aquisição

18 Março 2016, 14:00 • Ana Lúcia Santos

1. infinitivos raiz
a) Observação de dados: algumas generalizações sobre a distribuição de infinitivos raiz;

b)  As principais análises disponíveis para o fenómeno do infinitivo raiz: modal nulo, Tense Omission Model, Truncamento);

c) A discussão sobre maturação (a propósito da hipótese de truncamento);d) Infinitivos raiz em casos de aquisição atípica (SLI).

 

2. Sujeitos nulos:

a) Observações descritivas: produção de sujeitos nulos nos primeiros estádios de aquisição de línguas que não permitem sujeito nulo; relação entre distribuição de infinitivos raiz e de sujeitos nulos nos primeiros estádios de aquisição;

b) Uma hipótese clássica: a noção de fixação de parâmetro como resposta ao problema do desenvolvimento (hipótese clássica sobre sujeitos nulos na aquisição - Hyams, 1986);

c) Abordagens gramaticais vs. abordagens de processamento ao problema do sujeito nulo: parâmetro do sujeito nulo (Hyams, 1986), truncamento (Rizzi 1993/1994) (abordagens gramaticais), limitação ao número de palavras por enunciado (Bloom, 1990) (abordagem de processamento), "Root Subject Drop" (Rizzi, 2000, 2005) (abordagem mista);

d) Uma experiência recente que favorece uma explicação gramatical para o fenómeno dos sujeitos nulos nos primeiros estádios de aquisição (Orfitelli & Hyams, 2012).

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