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Peer reviewedDube, Busi – Second Language Research, 2000
Argues that functional categories instantiated in the learners' first language (L1) transfer to the initial state of second language syntactic development. On the basis of Zulu interlanguage data on acquisition of the obligatory declarative complementizer "ukuthi" (that) by English native speakers, argues that Comp contains a null…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Acquisition
