Genericity in Grammar and Lexicon: Estonian and Turkish Preschoolers Exploratory Play

This contribution wishes to integrate the modular design of LFG and some recent insights from developmental psychology and social cognition in order to represent data from languages that encode genericity as opposed to those that do not. The goal is to pin down the linguistic modules and levels of description that genericity belongs to.

In LFG, modularity concerns the internal relations between the linguistic modules, such as f-structure, c-structure, m-structure, etc, and not the relation between linguistic and non-linguistic modules. This paper examines the interaction of linguistic and non-linguistic modules as well, but does so from a viewpoint of a grammar that is modular.