Noun Combination in Interlanguage: Typology Effects in Complex Determiner Phrases

✍ Scribed by Christiane Bongartz

• Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten; 448
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study examines effects of L1 typology on the interlanguage of L2 learners of English. Czech learners use phrasal constructs (the song about love) significantly more often than Chinese learners, who prefer noun+noun compounds (the love song). Determiner properties and the process of noun incorporation systematically relate both options.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Grammar of Noun Combination
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Noun combination in English: a variable target
1.3 Summary
2 Noun Cominbination and Language Typology in First and Second Language Acquisition – A Review of the Literature
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Noun combination in first language acquisition
2.2 Noun combination in second language acquisition
2.3 Summary
3 The Typological Intersection and the Empirical Study of Noun Combination in Interlanguage
3.0 Introduction
3.1 The contrastive analysis of noun combination
3.2 Studying noun combination in interlanguage
3.3 Gathering the evidence
3.4 Summary
4 Testing for the Grammar of Noun Combination in Interlanguage
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Evidence for typology effects
4.2 Method
4.3 Results
4.4 Hypotheses revisited
4.5 Summary
5 Analysis and Discussion
5.0 Introduction
5.1 The typological intersections
5.2 Conceptualizing language contact
5.3 Noun combination across languages
5.4 Summary
References
Appendix 1: Grammaticality judgment task
Appendix 2: Sample transcripts