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Language Acquisition and the Functional Category System (Hardcover)
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Language Acquisition and the Functional Category System (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]
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Research on spontaneous language acquisition both in children
learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a second
language has shown that language development proceeds in a
stagewise manner. Learner utterances are accounted for in terms of
so-called 'learner languages'. Learner languages of both children
and adults are language systems that are initially rather simple.
The present monograph shows how these learner languages develop
both in child L1 and in adult L2 Dutch. At the initial stage of
both L1 and L2 Dutch, learner systems are lexical systems. This
means that utterance structure is determined by the lexical
projection of a predicate-argument structure, while the functional
properties of the target language are absent. At some point in
acquisition, this lexical-semantic system develops into a
target-like system. With this target-like system, learners have
reached a stage at which their language system has the
morpho-syntactic features to express the functional properties of
finiteness and topicality. Evidence of this is word order variation
and the use of linguistic elements such as auxiliaries, tense, and
agreement markers and determiners. Looking at this process of
language acquisition from a functional point of view, the author
focuses on questions such as the following. What is the driving
force behind the process that causes learners to give up a simple
lexical-semantic system in favour of a functional-pragmatic one?
What is the added value of linguistic features such as the
morpho-syntactic properties of inflection, word order variation,
and definiteness?
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