LINGUIST List 26.5159

Tue Nov 17 2015

Books: Optionality and overgeneralisation patterns in second language acquisition: Where has the expletive ensconced itself?: Varley

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Date: 09-Nov-2015
From: Simon Reber <S.Reberpeterlang.com>
Subject: Optionality and overgeneralisation patterns in second language acquisition: Where has the expletive ensconced itself?: Varley
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Title: Optionality and overgeneralisation patterns in second language
acquisition: Where has the expletive ensconced itself?
Series Title: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam - Band 18
Published: 2015
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
                http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?266798

Author: Nadia Varley
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631667989 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 44.80
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631667989 Pages: 269 Price: U.K. £ 36.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631667989 Pages: 269 Price: U.S. $ 58.95
Abstract:

This book discusses the nature of optionality in second language grammars and the indeterminacy observed in second language users’ linguistic representations. For these purposes, experimental data from 213 learners of German and 150 learners of Russian have been collected and analysed with a special focus on the acquisition of various «subjectless» and impersonal constructions as well as argument licensing. Whereas voice alternations and argument licensing are topics amply discussed in theoretical domains, their practical implementation within second language research has remained a research lacuna. This piece of work intends to fill the gap.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                            Linguistic Theories
                            Morphology
                            Syntax

Subject Language(s): German (deu)
                            Russian (rus)

Written In: English (eng)

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