Cécile De Cat

List of John Benjamins publications for which Cécile De Cat plays a role.

Book series

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Subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Kašćelan, Draško and Cécile De Cat 2022 A constellation of continua: Reconceptualising bilingualism, autism and language researchEpistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 59–64 | Commentary
De Cat, Cécile 2015 The cognitive underpinnings of referential abilitiesThe Acquisition of Reference, Serratrice, Ludovica and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 263–283 | Article
The aim of the chapter is to take stock and bring together fields of enquiry relevant to the investigation of preschool children’s referential abilities. After an appraisal of the evidence as to what adults’ referential abilities really are, the key cognitive prerequisites for unhindered… read more
De Cat, Cécile 2012 Towards an interface definition of root phenomena*Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 135–158 | Article
Root phenomena are those that typically occur in matrix clauses but are also allowed in a restricted set of embedded (“root-like”) clauses. This paper explores root phenomena with an interpretive import, and identifies three kinds of data that a purely syntactic approach cannot account for: the… read more
De Cat, Cécile 2006 Do root infinitives ever have an overt subject in child French?Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 57–76 | Article
De Cat, Cécile 2004 On the Impact of French Subject Clitics on the Information Structure of the SentenceRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 33 ff. | Article
De Cat, Cécile 2004 Apparent non-nominative subjects in L1 FrenchThe Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 51–88 | Article
De Cat, Cécile 2004 Early ‘Pragmatic’ Competence and its Implications regarding the Null Subject PhenomenonRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 17 ff. | Article