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Author : Lena Dal Pozzo
Release : 2015
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Book Synopsis New Information Subjects in L2 Acquisition by : Lena Dal Pozzo
Download or read book New Information Subjects in L2 Acquisition written by Lena Dal Pozzo. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dal Pozzo, Lena
Release : 2015-11-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish by : Dal Pozzo, Lena
Download or read book New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish written by Dal Pozzo, Lena. This book was released on 2015-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.
Author : Caterina Bonan
Release : 2023-11-20
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis It-Clefts by : Caterina Bonan
Download or read book It-Clefts written by Caterina Bonan. This book was released on 2023-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and status are still widely debated, therefore a multidisciplinary volume on this theoretically complex structure across different languages of the world is greatly needed. The articles featured in this volume follow an in-depth Introduction written by the editors, in which we offer a survey of the state-of-the-art on clefts by way of a strong contextualisation to the volume, including a number of robust empirical observations on the morphosyntactic and interpretational properties of these structures in numerous standard and non-standard Romance varieties, as well as a critical presentation of the contributions included in the volume. Among other things, the ten selected articles propose new insights into the widely-reported interpretational asymmetry between subject and object clefts, the features involved in their derivation, the ways in which the low and high peripheries are variously exploited in the derivation, the morphosyntactic and interpretational differences between clefts and their non-cleft counterparts, the role and formal properties of the copula, the notion of sub-extraction of features, a reconsideration of the very notion of focus via clefting, and much more. The volume, written by renown experts, offers an in-depth overview of the structure of it-clefts, taking into account different and complementary fields of the study of linguistics (cartography, quantitative methods, experimental investigations, nanosyntax, typology and dialectology) and robust empirical data from numerous languages including Romance varieties, Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese, and two Spanish- and French-lexifier creoles. Our belief is that the synchrony of clefts will only be appropriately understood once diachronic, typological, historical, experimental and dialectological aspects are all brought together. We offer through this volume a first attempt at providing such a variegated picture of the cross-linguistic morphosyntax of it-clefts.
Author : Elisa Di Domenico
Release : 2017-05-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Syntactic Complexity from a Language Acquisition Perspective by : Elisa Di Domenico
Download or read book Syntactic Complexity from a Language Acquisition Perspective written by Elisa Di Domenico. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume examines syntactic complexity from an acquisitional perspective, which offers a peculiarly grounded starting point when dealing with linguistic complexity, under the assumption that what is simpler is acquired earlier than what must be thought of as complex. Connecting acquisitional data inseparably to formal linguistic analyses, it not only allows a comparison between structures at various levels in terms of complexity, but also a deeper insight into the factors determining complexity in different populations of acquirers. The book is divided into two parts following an introductory chapter. The papers in Part I consider the first language acquisition of some complex structures such as different types of passives, relative clauses, questions and classes of predicates, with a look at children’s early sensitivity to seemingly complex domains, such as the Definiteness Effect and unaccusative predicates. Part II is dedicated to the acquisition of complex structures in different modes of acquisition. The papers here examine, sometimes comparatively, different conditions of language acquisition dealing with clitics, types of relative clauses or referential pronouns. The languages considered range from European Portuguese to Finnish, French, German, Italian and Romanian.
Author : Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
Release : 2019-01-24
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Overt and Null Subjects in Bulgarian and in L1 Bulgarian-L2 German Interlanguage by : Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
Download or read book Overt and Null Subjects in Bulgarian and in L1 Bulgarian-L2 German Interlanguage written by Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the realization of pronominal subjects in Bulgarian and its implications for late near-native competence of German as a second/foreign language. Since Bulgarian is under-researched, typological investigations were carried out prior to the empirical study of L2 subject use. The book covers the adequate classification of Bulgarian, ascertaining its pro-drop nature, and explores the possible impact of related cross-linguistic differences on near-native interlanguage grammars of speakers with the language combination L1-Bulgarian/L2-German. Although German is not pro-drop, it allows null topics and requires some obligatory null expletives, so that null subject contexts superficially overlap for the two languages. This is a source of interlanguage deficits if no proper differentiation between subject types is made.
