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Functional categories in learner language /

Research on spontaneous processes of language acquisition has shown that early learner systems are based on lexical structures. At some point in acquisition this lexical-semantic system is given up in favour of a target-like functional category system. This work deals with the driving forces behind...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dimroth, Christine, Jordens, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.
Colección:Studies on language acquisition ; 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface / Christine Dimroth and Peter Jordens
  • Convergence on finite V2 clauses in L1, bilingual L1 and early L2 acquisition / Rosemarie Tracy and Dieter Thoma
  • The acquisition of functional categories in child L1 and adult L2 Dutch / Peter Jordens
  • The acquisition of syntactic finiteness in L1 German: A structure-building approach / Steffi Winkler
  • Stepping stones and stumbling blocks: Why negation accelerates and additive particles delay the acquisition of finiteness in German / Christine Dimroth
  • Does finiteness mark assertion? A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German / Sarah Schimke
  • Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language / Josje Verhagen
  • Finiteness in children with SLI: a functional approach / Anke Jolink
  • Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian / Natalia Gagarina
  • How much (morpho- )syntax is needed to express finiteness? / Karen Ferret and Clive Perdue
  • Relating Italian articles and clitic object pronouns in bilingual children acquiring Italian and German / Tanja Kupisch and Natascha Müller
  • Index.