The acquistion of second-language syntax
By: Susan Braidi.
Publisher: Arnold; Co-published in the United States by Oxford University Press; Co-published in the U.S. by Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Second language acquisition.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Principles and parameters (Linguistics); Universals (Linguistics)
Description: The issue of syntactic development is one of the most central to both linguistics and applied linguistics. Assuming no detailed background knowledge of linguistics, this book is an introduction to the acquisition of syntax in a second language. The text builds a coherent picture of second language grammatical development by showing the interactions between the syntactic, processing, and functional/discourse approaches, and looks at how and why these different approaches give different results.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-191) and index.