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The Clause-Initial Position in L2 German Declaratives: Transfer of Information Structure
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Bohnacker, Ute; Rosen, Christina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008
This article investigates the information structure of verb-second (V2) declaratives in Swedish, German, and nonnative German. Even though almost any type of element can occur in the so-called prefield, the clause-initial preverbal position of V2 declaratives, we have found language-specific patterns in native-speaker corpora: The frequencies of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Syntax, German
On the "Vulnerability" of Syntactic Domains in Swedish and German
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Bohnacker, Ute – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2007
This article investigates the L2 acquisition of clausal syntax in postpuberty learners of German and Swedish regarding V2, VP headedness, and verb particle constructions. The learner data are tested against L2 theories according to which lower structural projections (VP) are acquired before higher functional projections (IP, CP), VP syntax is…
Descriptors: Verbs, Swedish, Native Speakers, German