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Peer reviewedRizzi, Luigi – Language Acquisition, 1994
Argues that root infinitives produced by Italian toddlers learning a second language are truncated structures, arising from the option of "stripping off" external clausal layers. The basic properties of the construction are shown to be amenable to the Truncation Hypothesis, in that root infinitives are incompatible with /wh/ elements,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, German
