LINGUIST List 21.2980
Mon Jul 19 2010
Diss: Morphology/Syntax: Wagner: 'Interlanguage Morphology ...'
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1. Thomas
Wagner,
Interlanguage Morphology: Irregular verbs in the mental lexicon of German-English interlanguage speakers
Message 1: Interlanguage Morphology: Irregular verbs in the mental lexicon of German-English interlanguage speakers
Date: 19-Jul-2010
From: Thomas Wagner <thomas.wagnerph-ooe.at>
Subject: Interlanguage Morphology: Irregular verbs in the mental lexicon of German-English interlanguage speakers
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Institution: University of Siegen
Program: English Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2009
Author: Thomas Wagner
Dissertation Title: Interlanguage Morphology: Irregular verbs in the mental lexicon of German-English interlanguage speakers
Linguistic Field(s):
Morphology
Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
German, Standard (deu)
Language Family(ies): Germanic
Dissertation Director:
Annelie Knapp
Ingo Plag
Dissertation Abstract:
This book presents the first detailed empirical study of irregular verbmorphology in the German-English interlanguage. Starting with a theoreticalin-depth account of irregular verb morphology both in English and German,three widely discussed theses about its nature are tested against a widerange of empirical data, both from L1 and L2. Although the findings partlyconfirm existing models and theories, the data also show the need forfurther re-examination of some fundamental questions through associative orprobabilistic computer models. All in all this book provides a rigorous,profound and thought-provoking discussion of the phenomenon in question.This involves an up-to-date revision of existing theories as well as thecross-linguistic examination of L1 and L2 data by an array of sophisticatedmultivariate statistical models. The book is mainly directed towardsuniversity students of German and English linguistics, psycholinguisticsand language acquisition at an advanced level.
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