TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dimroth,Christine
AU  - Jordens,Peter
TI  - Functional categories in learner language
T2  - Studies on language acquisition
SN  - 9783110216172 (electronic bk.)
AV  - P118 .F86 2009eb
U1  - 401/.93 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - Language acquisition
KW  - Second language acquisition
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 M�uller -- Index
N2  - 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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