Typology and second language acquisition / edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giacalone Ramat, Anna, 1937-

Series:

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years research on comparative typology has led to reveal regularities and to formulate new constraints upon variation for a broad range of phenomena. As the amount of typological research increased, a growing interest arose for the implications that findings in the typological field might have on second language acquisition. Written by experts in the field of typology and/or second language acquisition, this volume addresses theoretical and empirical issues on structural domains such as relative clauses and possessive constructions as well as pragmatic considerations on information organization in learners productions.

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction / Ramat, Anna Giacalone

Typology and language acquisition: the case of relative clauses / Comrie, Bernard

Relative clauses in early bilingual development: Transfer and universals / Matthews, Stephen / Yip, Virginia

Learner varieties and language types. The case of indefinite pronouns in non-native Italian / Bernini, Giuliano

Adnominal possession: combining typological and second language perspectives / Hammarberg, Björn / Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria

Gerunds as optional categories in second language learning / Ramat, Anna Giacalone

Iconicity and finiteness in the development of early grammar in French as L2 and in French-based Creoles / Veronique, Daniel

Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese / Shirai, Yasuhiro / Nishi, Yumiko

Using nouns for reference maintenance: A seeming contradiction in L2 discourse / Hendriks, Henriëtte

Crosslinguistic comparison and second language acquisition: an approach to Topic and Left detachment constructions from the perspective of spoken language / Sornicola, Rosanna

Typology and information organisation: perspective taking and Language-specific effects in the construal of events / Carroll, Mary / Stutterheim, Christiane von

Typological comparison and interlanguage phonology: maps or gaps between typology and language learning of sound systems? / Giannini, Stefania

Index of subjects

Index of authors

List of contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110891249

3110891247

OCLC:

979693370