LEADER 03994nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910780736803321 005 20230802003739.0 010 $a3-11-021621-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110216219 035 $a(CKB)2480000000003913 035 $a(EBL)893425 035 $a(OCoLC)826480612 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000907669 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11486241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000907669 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10884260 035 $a(PQKB)10444328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893425 035 $a(DE-B1597)36185 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948843 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980798 035 $a(OCoLC)1041991659 035 $a(OCoLC)1043660059 035 $a(OCoLC)853260690 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110216219 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893425 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649264 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL503184 035 $a(EXLCZ)992480000000003913 100 $a20130201d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLanguage acquisition and the functional category system$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Jordens 210 $aBerlin $cDe Gruyter Mouton$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 225 1 $aStudies on language acquisition,$x1861-4248 ;$vv. 39 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-021620-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 Lexical vs. functional elements -- $t3 The Target System -- $t4 The initial state -- $t5 The lexical stage -- $t6 The functional stage -- $t7 Finiteness in language acquisition research -- $t8 Conclusion -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aResearch on spontaneous language acquisition both in children learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a second language has shown that language development proceeds in a stagewise manner. Learner utterances are accounted for in terms of so-called 'learner languages'. Learner languages of both children and adults are language systems that are initially rather simple. The present monograph shows how these learner languages develop both in child L1 and in adult L2 Dutch. At the initial stage of both L1 and L2 Dutch, learner systems are lexical systems. This means that utterance structure is determined by the lexical projection of a predicate-argument structure, while the functional properties of the target language are absent. At some point in acquisition, this lexical-semantic system develops into a target-like system. With this target-like system, learners have reached a stage at which their language system has the morpho-syntactic features to express the functional properties of finiteness and topicality. Evidence of this is word order variation and the use of linguistic elements such as auxiliaries, tense, and agreement markers and determiners. Looking at this process of language acquisition from a functional point of view, the author focuses on questions such as the following. What is the driving force behind the process that causes learners to give up a simple lexical-semantic system in favour of a functional-pragmatic one? What is the added value of linguistic features such as the morpho-syntactic properties of inflection, word order variation, and definiteness? 410 0$aStudies on language acquisition ;$v39. 606 $aLanguage acquisition 610 $aFiniteness. 610 $aLearner Languages. 610 $aPsycholinguistics. 610 $aSecond Language Acquisition. 615 0$aLanguage acquisition. 676 $a401.93 686 $aER 925$2rvk 700 $aJordens$b Peter$01484832 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780736803321 996 $aLanguage acquisition and the functional category system$93703638 997 $aUNINA