Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Background to the study and research questions
  • 2. Subjects
  • 3. Data and data processing
  • 3.1. The language samples
  • 3.2. The social and socio-psychological material
  • 4. The functional paradigm
  • basic principles and concepts of Functional Grammar
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Outline of FG
  • CHAPTER 2 ORAL DUTCH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY OF TURKISCH CHILDREN BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS: Overall results
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Tests
  • 2.1. Morphology Test
  • 2.2. Imitation Test.
  • 2.2.1. IT: Morphological Features
  • 2.2.2. IT: Syntactic Features
  • 2.2.3. IT: Semantic Features
  • 2.3. Comprehension Test
  • 3. Spontaneous Speech
  • 3.1. Morphological Features
  • 3.1.1. Verb Conjugation
  • 3.1.2. Personal pronouns
  • 3.1.3. Prepositions
  • 3.1.4. Articles
  • 3.2. Syntactic Features
  • 3.3. Semantic Features
  • 3.3.1. Informational Units
  • 3.3.2. Semantic Category Agreement
  • 3.3.3. Vocabulary
  • 4. Summary and Establishment of an overall level of linguistic proficiency
  • 4.1. Summary
  • 4.2. Establishment of an overall level of linguistic proficiency
  • 5. Conclusion.
  • CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGICAL PROFICIENCY: L1 and L2 development of the verbal predicate
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Dutch tense system
  • 3. Developmental sequences in L1 acquisition of the verbal predicate
  • 4. Method of Analysis
  • 5. L2 acquisition of the Dutch tense system
  • 6. L2 acquisition of the present tense conjugation rule
  • 7. L2 acquisition of the past participle and the past tense
  • 7.1. Past Participle
  • 7.2. Past Tense
  • 8. Summary and discussion
  • CHAPTER 4 SYNTACTIC PROFICIENCY: Complexity and correctness of utterances
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Word order properties of Dutch declarative main clauses
  • 2.1. Complete Utterances
  • 2.2. Elliptical Utterances
  • 2.3. Spoken Dutch
  • 3. The FG pattern of Dutch main clauses
  • 4. Method of Analysis
  • 5. Complexity
  • 5.1. Length of Utterances
  • 5.2. Structural diversity
  • 5.2.1. One-constituent utterances
  • 5.2.2. Two-constituent utterances
  • 5.2.3. Three-constituent utterances
  • 5.2.4. Four-constituent utterances
  • 5.2.5. Five-, six-, and seven-constituent utterances
  • 5.2.6. Conclusion
  • 5.3. Summary
  • 6. Correctness
  • 6.1. Acceptable spoken Dutch patterns.
  • 6.1.1. Utterances starting with the finite verb
  • 6.1.2. Utterances with a constituent added to a complete predication
  • 6.1.3. Utterances with a noun directly followed by its corresponding demonstrative
  • 6.1.4. Frequency of occurrence of acceptable spoken Dutch patterns
  • 6.1.5. Conclusion
  • 6.2. Utterances without subject and/or without verb
  • 6.3. Utterances with a deviant word order pattern
  • 6.3.1. Verb Final and V3
  • 6.3.2. Utterances with the subject or verb in two different positions
  • 6.3.3. Object Final and incorrect joint VfVi
  • 6.3.4. Conclusion
  • 6.4. Summary.