Utterence Structure: Developing Grammars Again

by Clive Perdue and Wolfgang Klein

This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. The present study deals specifically with structure of utterances in learner varieties. The authors have attempted to find general principles which determine the form of utterances from the very beginning to relatively advanced stages. Chapter 1 and 2 provide the framework for the study and here the guiding hypotheses are sketched on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556193491
• ISBN13: 9781556193491
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 370 Pages