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Direct linkBardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Stringer, David – Second Language Research, 2017
This article presents a generative analysis of the acquisition of formulaic language as an alternative to current usage-based proposals. One influential view of the role of formulaic expressions in second language (L2) development is that they are a bootstrapping mechanism into the L2 grammar; an initial repertoire of constructions allows for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Simulation, Task Analysis
Stringer, David – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
This corpus study brings a second language (L2) research perspective, insights from generative grammar, and new empirical evidence to bear on a long-accepted claim in the World Englishes literature--namely, that inversion with "wh"-movement in colloquial Indian English is obligatory in embedded clauses and impossible in main clauses. It…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Indians
Stringer, David; Burghardt, Beatrix; Seo, Hyun-Kyoung; Wang, Yi-Ting – Second Language Research, 2011
There has been considerable progress in second language (L2) research at the syntax-semantics interface addressing how syntax can inform phrasal semantics, in terms of interpretive correlates of word order (Slabakova, 2008). This article provides evidence of a flow of information ostensibly in the opposite direction, from meaning to grammar, at…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Second Language Learning, Word Order
