Typology and second language acquisition
Fifteen international scholars contribute 12 chapters examining the interaction between typology and second language acquisition. Coverage includes relative clauses in early bilingual development of Cantonese-English speakers; the functions of indefinite pronouns in non- native Italian; adnominal possessive constructions in Swedish; gerunds as optional categories in Italian; the crucial role of iconicity and finiteness in the development of French grammar; lexicalization of aspectual structures…
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- Full title :Typology and second language acquisition / edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat.
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Fifteen international scholars contribute 12 chapters examining the interaction between typology and second language acquisition. Coverage includes relative clauses in early bilingual development of Cantonese-English speakers; the functions of indefinite pronouns in non- native Italian; adnominal possessive constructions in Swedish; gerunds as optional categories in Italian; the crucial role of iconicity and finiteness in the development of French grammar; lexicalization of aspectual structures in English and Japanese; overexplicitation in Chinese learners of French, German and English; topic and left-detachment constructions in spoken language; typology and information organization; and conditions of uniformity of realization in phonological change. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
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- Description:vi, 454 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:311017359X, 9783110173598
- oclc:ocm50606424
- LC Classification:P118.2
- Dewey Decimal:418
Table of Contents
Typology and language acquisition / Bernard Comrie -- Relative clauses in early bilingual development / Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip -- Learner varieties and language types / Giuliano Bernini -- Adnominal possession / Björn Hammarberg and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- Gerunds as optional categories in second language learning / Anna Giacalone Ramat -- Iconicity and finiteness in the development of early grammar in French as L2 and in French-based Creoles / Daniel Véronique -- Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese / Yasuhiro Shirai and Yumiko Nishi -- Using nouns for reference maintenance / Henriëtte Hendricks -- Crosslinguistic comparison and second language acquisition / Rosanna Sornicola -- Typology and information organisation / Mary Carroll and Christiane Von Stutterheim -- Typological comparison and interlanguage phonology / Stefania Giannini.
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