Books by Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Diessel

An innovative study of grammar that explains how speakers' knowledge of grammar is emergent from domain-general processes of communication and cognition. Written in an accessible style and illustrated by numerous diagrams and examples, the book will appeal to researchers and students of linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive science.

This pathbreaking study provides a comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Holger Diessel investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children aged between two and five, examining the acquisition of infinitival, participial and finite complement clauses, finite and non-finite relative clauses, and co-ordinate clauses.