Dummy Auxiliaries in First and Second Language Acquisition / / ed. by Elma Blom, Josje Verhagen, Ineke van de Craats.

Dummy auxiliaries are seemingly superfluous words that appear in learner varieties across languages. This volume is an up-to-date overview of research on dummy auxiliaries with contributions covering English, Dutch, German, French, Cypriot-Greek, first and second language acquisition, and specific l...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 49
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Dummy auxiliaries in monolingual first language acquisition
  • Superfluous ‘do’ and comparison of spell-outs
  • Dummy auxiliaries in Dutch first language acquisition
  • Semantic dummy verbs in child Dutch
  • There is a dummy ‘is’ in early first language acquisition
  • Lightverbhood in child language: Evidence from Cypriot Greek
  • Dummy auxiliaries in simultaneous and successive child bilingualism
  • Reflections on dummy ‘do’ in child language and syntactic theory
  • Dummy verbs in first and second language acquisition in German
  • Dummy auxiliaries in children with SLI – a study on Dutch, in monolinguals and bilinguals
  • Dummy auxiliaries in adult second language acquisition
  • From dummy auxiliary to auxiliary in Moroccan adult learners’ production and comprehension of Dutch
  • Dummy verbs and the acquisition of verb raising in L2 German and French
  • Broader perspectives on dummy auxiliaries
  • Dummies and auxiliaries in the acquisition of L1 and L2 Dutch
  • Child use of auxiliary + infinitive in Dutch: Acquisition device or reflection of the input
  • Dummy auxiliaries in Dutch dialects, L1 and L2 acquisition
  • Index