Functional Categories in Learner Language

Functional Categories in Learner Language

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Author/Contributor(s): Dimroth, Christine ; Jordens, Peter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Date: 10/16/2009
Binding: Hardcover
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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.