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Toward Second Language Acquisition

A Study of Null-Prep

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Elaine C. Klein

    1. Queens College and The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 17)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Markedness Theory and Second Language Acquisition

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 1-22

  3. Pied-Piping and Preposition Stranding

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 23-50

  4. The Null-Prep Phenomenon

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 51-69

  5. Null-Prep: L2 Experimental Data

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 70-123

  6. Cross-Linguistic Data

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 124-147

  7. The Syntax of Null-Prep

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 148-193

  8. Preposition Omission in English and the Relative Clause Parameters

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 194-235

  9. Explaining Null-Prep in the L2 Grammar

    • Elaine C. Klein
    Pages 236-258

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 259-292
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About this book

This book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers new perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship between first and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar (UG), and the target language input. Specifically, examination of the L2 development of pied-piping and preposition stranding in English questions and relative clauses shows that the required preposition is frequently omitted by learners who have demonstrated accurate subcategorization knowledge of verbal complements in related declarative constructions. The `null-prep' data in the L2 grammar leads to an important cross-linguistic investigation of this largely ignored syntactic phenomenon in the world's languages; it also motivates exploration of the complex English input learners receive as positive evidence. An analysis of null-prep, piping and stranding is posited, including the relevant principles and parameters of UG involved. Based on this linguistic analysis, alternative explanations for the L2 phenomenon are offered, representing challenges to UG and markedness-based accounts of second language acquisition. Such challenges will be of interest to linguists as well as to students, teachers, reseachers and scholars interested in second language acquisition, particularly in its relationship to UG.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Queens College and The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, USA

    Elaine C. Klein

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Toward Second Language Acquisition

  • Book Subtitle: A Study of Null-Prep

  • Authors: Elaine C. Klein

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2038-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2463-8Published: 30 September 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4902-3Published: 25 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2038-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 292

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics

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