Functional Categories in Learner Language

Edited by Christine Dimroth und Peter Jordens.

Research on spontaneous processes of language acquisition has shown that early learner systems are based on lexical structures. At some point in acquisition this lexical-semantic system is given up in favour of a target-like functional category system. This work deals with the driving forces behind the acquisition of the functional properties of inflection, word-order variation, definiteness and agreement. XII,347 Seiten, gebunden (Studies on Language Acquisition; Vol. 37/Mouton de Gruyter Verlag 2009)