Functional Categories in Learner Language / / ed. by Peter Jordens, Christine Dimroth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Dimroth, Christine,; Ferret, Karen,; Gagarina, Natalia,; Jolink, Anke,; Jordens, Peter,; Kupisch, Tanja,; Müller, Natascha,; Perdue, Clive,; Schimke, Sarah,; Thoma, Dieter,; Tracy, Rosemarie,; Verhagen, Josje,; Winkler, Steffi,
• HerausgeberIn: Dimroth, Christine,; Jordens, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Language acquisition is a developmental process. 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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Convergence on finite V2 clauses in L1, bilingual L1 and early L2 acquisition
• The acquisition of functional categories in child L1 and adult L2 Dutch
• The acquisition of syntactic finiteness in L1 German. A structure-building approach.
• Stepping stones and stumbling blocks. Why negation accelerates and additive particles delay the acquisition of finiteness in German
• Does finiteness mark assertion? A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German
• Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language
• Finiteness in children with SLI – a functional approach
• Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian
• How much (morpho-)syntax is needed to express finiteness?
• Relating Italian articles and clitic object pronouns in bilingual children acquiring Italian and German
• Backmatter