accuracy, 13–15, 78–84, 112–113, 142, 155

accusative, 116, 212

acquisition criteria, 154–158, 183

active. See active voice

actor, 115

agent, 53, 56, 65, 77–81, 110, 119–122, 130, 220

agglutinative, 102

alignment, 45

acquisition criteria, 154–156, 158, 161–162, 183, 190, 254

Arabic, 3, 15, 70, 134, 139, 233

argument structure, 55–57, 116–120, 122, 298

a-structure. See argument structure

aspect, 42, 98, 105, 166–167, 189, 204, 261, 286–287

automaticity, 31–32

auxiliary, 15, 27, 66, 68, 71, 86, 98–99, 115, 180–182

behaviourism, 12

benefactive, 82, 114–115, 151, 182–183, 189, 217, 224–231, 240, 242, 247, 254–256, 270–271

bilingual speech model, 49

bulk-transfer, 74

c-structure, 55–56, 59–62, 65, 67–69, 93, 103, 107, 111, 122, 124–125, 169

canonical

mapping, 53, 65–66, 68, 109, 111, 113, 220

order, 20–21, 26, 34, 53, 63–65, 79–80, 109, 111–113, 116, 122, 124–126, 128, 254, 296

case assignment, 120, 224, 226, 229

case marking, 77, 83, 93, 112–113, 212, 217, 219–220, 222–224, 228–229

causative, 77–81, 112–115, 119–120, 169–171, 217, 221–226, 229, 247, 270–271

Chinese, 3, 14–15, 33, 70, 139–140

coherence condition, 58, 124

combinatoric information, 105

Competition Model, 72–73, 77

completeness condition, 58, 68

conceptualisation, 36, 46, 50, 69

connectionist, 73

constituent-structure. See c-structure

constraint, 20, 22

constructionism, 9, 14–19

Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis, 4, 9, 10–12

core argument, 66, 269, 297

cross-linguistic influence, 70, 276–284

default argument mapping, 270

developmental error, 12, 182, 228

developmental sequence, 15, 18–20, 30, 32–34, 55, 75–76, 84–85, 87–88, 91, 161, 172–207, 256–276, 284–290, 293, 295, 298–299