Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese / / ed. by Shigenori Wakabayashi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Fukuda, Kazuhiko,; Hirakawa, Makiko,; Inagaki, Shunji,; Kuribara, Chieko,; Ohba, Hiromasa,; Okawara, Izumi,; Shirahata, Tomohiko,; Suda, Koji,; Tatsuta, Natsuko,; Tomita, Yuichi,; Wakabayashi, Shigenori,
• HerausgeberIn: Wakabayashi, Shigenori,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA? --; I: VP structures --; Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs --; Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English --; II: Functional categories --; The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage --; The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English --; Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars --; Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English --; III: New empirical data --; Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions --; N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest --; List of contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110892468; 9783110649772; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4248
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110892468
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Shigenori Wakabayashi.

This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. It deals with a wide range of topics from the acquisiton of VP structures to functional categories and presents new empirical data. The studies all contribute to our understanding of these topics, and they are of current interest to researchers working on Second Language Acquisition.