九州大学出版会 Kyushu University Press

　This book considers the phenomenon of non-nominative subjects in the speech of children acquiring English. Ito systematically shows that the attested deviance in pronominal forms arises from the "child-unfriendly" verbal systems peculiar to English,...

Negative Constructions in Middle English analyzes the development of Middle English negation, mainly from the syntactic perspective. It discusses various aspects of negative constructions, e.g. the development of the adverb not, word order concerning...