: Christine Dimroth, Peter Jordens
: Functional Categories in Learner Language
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110216172
: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.80
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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 the acquisition of the functional properties of inflection, word-order variation, definiteness and agreement.

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Christine Dimroth, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Peter Jordens , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Preface6
Contents12
Convergence on finite V2 clauses in L1, bilingual L1 and early L2 acquisition14
The acquisition of functional categories in child L1 and adult L2 Dutch58
The acquisition of syntactic finiteness in L1 German. A structure-building approach.110
Stepping stones and stumbling blocks. Why negation accelerates and additive particles delay the acquisition of finiteness in German148
Does finiteness mark assertion? A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German182
Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language216
Finiteness in children with SLI – a functional approach248
Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian274
How much (morpho-)syntax is needed to express finiteness?296
Relating Italian articles and clitic object pronouns in bilingual children acquiring Italian and German320
Index356