{"pk":33198,"title":"Acquiring Grammars with Complex Heads: A Model Using Have as a Complex Verb","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A thorough account of how grammar is acquired must handle the problem of how learners deal with covert grammatical elements. In particular, there is cross-linguistic evidence that languages contain verbs that are formed by incorporating a silent grammatical element (a head, in GB terms). Assuming this to be a possibility in natural grammar, this paper investigates what type of input would enable a learner to identify a verb with covert head incorporation, and thus to identify a grammar that contains such a verb. I show that such a grammar cannot be learned from input that does not give the locations of empty heads in sentential structure.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gv6f4t2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Misha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Becker","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Linguistics, UCLA","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33198/galley/24258/download/"}]}