Typology and Second Language Acquisition / / ed. by Anna Giacalone Ramat.

In recent years research on comparative typology has led to reveal regularities and to formulate new constraints upon variation for a broad range of phenomena. As the amount of typological research increased, a growing interest arose for the implications that findings in the typological field might...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource (454 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction
  • Typology and language acquisition: the case of relative clauses
  • Relative clauses in early bilingual development: Transfer and universals
  • Learner varieties and language types. The case of indefinite pronouns in non-native Italian
  • Adnominal possession: combining typological and second language perspectives
  • Gerunds as optional categories in second language learning
  • Iconicity and finiteness in the development of early grammar in French as L2 and in Frenchbased Creoles
  • Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese
  • Using nouns for reference maintenance: A seeming contradiction in L2 discourse
  • Crosslinguistic comparison and second language acquisition: an approach to Topic and Leftdetachment constructions from the perspective of spoken language
  • Typology and information organisation: perspective taking and Language-specific effects in the construal of events
  • Typological comparison and interlanguage phonology: maps or gaps between typology and language learning of sound systems?
  • Index of subjects
  • Index of authors
  • List of contributors