The development of second language grammars : a generative approach

✍ Scribed by Elaine C Klein; Gita Martohardjono

• Publisher: J. Benjamins
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Language acquisition & language disorders, v. 18
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the development of L2 grammars; others formulate exciting new proposals for methodology and learnability in both first and second language acquisition. Following an introduction which argues for new research strategies that focus on the process of acquisition along with its product, the book is divided into two. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Investigating second language grammars : some conceptual and methodological issues in generative SLA research / Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono --
Common methodological issues in L1 and L2 research / Helen Smith Cairns --
Second language acquisition of the split CP structure / Philippe Prévost --
Activating AgriIOP in second language acquisition / Silvina A. Montrul --
Null subjects in non-native grammars : the Spanish L2 of Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Korean speakers / Juana M. Liceras, Lourdes Díaz and Denyse Maxwell --
Selectivity in the acquisition of complex NP islands / Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Xiaoli Li --
Psych verbs in second language acquisition / Lydia White [and others] --
Just parsing through : notes on the state of L2 processing research today / Elaine C. Klein --
Processing strategies in second language acquisition : some preliminary results / Eva M. Fernández --
Language mixing and second language acquisition : some issues and perspectives / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie --
Codeswitching, grammar, and sentence production : the problem of light verbs / William Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia --
Multiple-specifiers and Wh-island effects in L2 acquisition : a preliminary study / Noriaki Yusa --
Losing the V2 constraint / Daniel Robertson and Antonella Sorace --
Learnability theory : triggers for parsing with / Janet Dean Fodor.
Abstract:

A collection of papers reflecting the shift away from characterizing second language acquisition as either having, or not having, access to principles and parameters of Universal Grammar, and towards theories of putative L1 influence on the L2 learner. Read more...