Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning : : Findings and Insights from a Learner Corpus / / ed. by Anne Golden, Scott Jarvis, Kari Tenfjord.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Golden, Anne,; Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland,; Janik, Marta Olga,; Jarvis, Scott,; Kinn, Torodd,; Kulbrandstad, Lars Anders,; Ragnhildstveit, Silje,; Szymańska, Oliwia,; Tenfjord, Kari,
• HerausgeberIn: Golden, Anne,; Jarvis, Scott,; Tenfjord, Kari,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from a single corpus of texts written for a proficiency test of L2 Norwegian by learners representing 10 different first language...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Transfer: An Overview with an Expanded Scope
• 3. The 'Perfect Candidate' for Transfer: A Discussion of L1 Influence in L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology
• 4. On How Polish Learners of Norwegian Render Spatial Prepositions in L2: A Corpus-Based Study of i and på
• 5. Positive and Negative Transfer in the L2 Adjective Inflection of English-, German- and Polish-speaking Learners of L2 Norwegian
• 6. Gender Assignment and L1 Transfer in Norwegian Second Language Learners' Written Performance
• 7. Stranded or Lost? Preposition Stranding in Norwegian Learner Languages
• 8. Emotions Negotiated in L2 Texts: A Corpus Study of Written Production by Adult Learners on a Norwegian Test
• 9. Evaluation of Texts in Tests, or: Where is the Dog Buried?
• Author Index
• Subject Index