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Title | Book: Functional Categories in Learner Language |
Body | From http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110216165-1 Functional Categories in Learner Language Edited by Christine Dimroth and Peter Jordens Published by de Gruyter Summary: Research on spontaneous processes of both children learning their mother tongue and adults learning a second language has shown that particular stages of acquisition can be discriminated. Initially, learner utterances can be accounted for in terms of a language system that is relatively simple. In studies on second language acquisition this learner system is called the Basic Variety (Klein and Perdue 1997). At some point in acquisition this lexical-semantic system is given up in favor of a target-like system with morpho-syntactic features to express the functional properties of finiteness, topicality, the determiner system, etc. Insights into how this process evolves may also provide an answer to the question of why it takes place. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110216165-1 |
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Publishdate | 2010-01-11 00:00:00 |
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