Title: The acquistion of second-language syntax
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general, Principles and parameters (Linguistics), Second language acquisition, Syntax, Universals (Linguistics), Grammar, comparative and general, syntax, Linguistic universals
LC classification: P118.2 .B7 1998