Noun combination in interlanguage : typology effects in complex determiner phrases / Christiane Bongartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bongartz, Christiane.

Series:

Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 448.

Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; 448

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Noun.

English language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph examines the effects of first language typology on the interlanguage of learners of English as a second language. Adapting William Rutherford's (1983) view of interlanguage as the typological intersection between the first language and the second language, the study demonstrates how first language effects subtly shape learner choices even at near native proficiency. Grounded in the tradition of transfer research and in the research program in generative grammar, the evidence presented shows the distribution of noun+noun compounds such as the love song and phrasal noun combinations such as the song about love in interlanguage data. These two patterns, it is argued, are systematically related by determiner properties and the process of noun incorporation. Obtained from a multi-task cross-sectional experiment, the data illustrates that learners with Czech as their first language use phrasal constructs (the song about love) significantly more often in production than learners with Mandarin Chinese as their first language, whose preferred choice are noun+noun compounds (the love song). The differences between the learner groups reflect the use of overt case marking in the first language Czech and the absence of overt case marking in the first language Mandarin Chinese.

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction

1 The Grammar of Noun Combination

2 Noun Combination and Language Typology in First and Second Language Acquisition - A Review of the Literature

3 The Typological Intersection and the Empirical Study of Noun Combination in Interlanguage

4 Testing for the Grammar of Noun Combination in Interlanguage

5 Analysis and Discussion

References

Appendix 1: Grammaticality judgment task

Appendix 2: Sample transcripts

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110940718

311094071X

OCLC:

843207049