Dummy auxiliaries in first and second language acquisition
By: edited by Elma Blom, Ineke van de Craats, Josje Verhagen
Series: Studies on language acquisition -- 49
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781614515579; 9781614513476
Subjects: Language acquisition; Comparative and general Grammar; Auxiliaries; Language and languages; Study and teaching
Description: Dummy auxiliaries are seemingly superfluous words that appear in learner varieties across languages. This volume is an up-to-date overview of research on dummy auxiliaries with contributions covering English, Dutch, German, French, Cypriot-Greek, first and second language acquisition, and specific language impairment as well as dialectal variation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.