The acquisition of temporality in a second language / Rainer Dietrich, Wolfgang Klein, Colette Noyau, in cooperation with Josée Coenen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dietrich, Rainer.

Contributor:

Klein, Wolfgang, 1946 February 3-

Noyau, Colette.

Coenen, Josée.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 7.

Studies in bilingualism (SiBil), 0928-1533 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1995.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is the second volume of the SiBil series to present results from the European Science Foundation's project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. It deals specifically with the acquisition of temporality in five European languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Swedish, providing a detailed account of how adult learners who have little or no exposure to classroom teaching, express temporality at any given stage of the acquisition process, how they proceed from one stage to the next, and what factors determine both their progress and their final levels of proficiency. The

Contents:

THE ACQUISITION OF TEMPORALITY IN A SECOND LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. Frame of analysis; 3. The acquisition of English; 4. The acquisition of German; 5. The acquisition of Dutch; 6. The acquisition of French; 7. The acquisition of Swedish; 8. Conclusions; Author index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-272-8279-X

9786613222169

1-283-22216-7

OCLC:

742333673