Generative approaches to the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese / edited by Shigenori Wakabayashi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wakabayashi, Shigenori, 1962-

Series:

Studies on language acquisition ; 20.

Studies on language acquisition ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Japanese speakers.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Japanese.

Japanese language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Grammar, Generative.

English language--Grammar, Generative.

Physical Description:

viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA? / Shigenori Wakabayashi 1

I VP structures 15

Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs / Shunji Inagaki 17

Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English / Makiko Hirakawa 41

II Functional categories 79

The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases In English by Japanese learners at an early stage / Koji Suda, Shigenori Wakabayashi 81

The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English / Tomohiko Shirahata 109

Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars / Hiromasa Ohba 143

Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English / Chieko Kuribara 167

III New empirical data 213

Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions / Shigenori Wakabayashi, Izumi Okawara 215

N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest / Yuichi Tomita, Kazuhiko Fukuda, Natsuko Tatsuta 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110176599

OCLC:

51053370