Functional categories in learner language
By: edited by Christine Dimroth, Peter Jordens.
Contributors: Dimroth, Christine.; Jordens, Peter.
Series: Studies on language acquisition -- 37; Studies on language acquisition -- 37.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9783110216165
Subjects: Language acquisition; Second language acquisition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface / Christine Dimroth and Peter Jordens; title: Convergence on finite V2 clauses in L1, bilingual L1 and early L2 acquisition / Rosemarie Tracy and Dieter Thoma; title: The acquisition of functional categories in child L1 and adult L2 Dutch / Peter Jordens; title: The acquisition of syntactic finiteness in L1 German: A structure-building approach / Steffi Winkler; title: Stepping stones and stumbling blocks: Why negation accelerates and additive particles delay the acquisition of finiteness in German / Christine Dimroth; title: Does finiteness mark assertion? A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German / Sarah Schimke; title: Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language / Josje Verhagen; title: Finiteness in children with SLI: a functional approach / Anke Jolink; title: Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian / Natalia Gagarina; title: How much (morpho-)syntax is needed to express finiteness? / Karen Ferret and Clive Perdue; title: Relating Italian articles and clitic object pronouns in bilingual children acquiring Italian and German / Tanja Kupisch and Natascha Müller; title: Index.