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A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. "Impossible persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of …
This master's thesis investigated realizations of typologically marked structures (word final stops) in the interlanguages of 15 ESL learners across Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese and Japanese first languages (L1s). In general, previous theories of markedness (see Eckman's MARKEDN…
Beginning with Ritchie (1978), no less than 20 studies have probed the issue of Universal Grammar (UG) access by adult second language (L2) learners. In a majority of these studies the results pointed toward UG accessibility. Schachter (1989a, 1990) found it to be otherwise. Whi…
This dissertation is concerned with three primary issues: (i) the distribution and function of inflectional morphemes in Korean, (ii) the syntactic placement and semantic interpretation of the inflectional morphemes, and (iii) their interactions with Universal Grammar. In discus…