Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Second Language Acquisition

by Marcus Callies

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027254311
• ISBN13: 9789027254313
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 293 Pages