First Verbs

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child''s earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child''s first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes especially event structures and cultural learning.