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Optionality in Non-Native Grammars: L2 Acquisition of German Constructions with Absent Expletives
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Sopata, Aldona – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2005
This paper investigates the knowledge of constructions with absent expletives by advanced and high-proficiency non-native speakers of German whose first language is Polish. German grammar is known to license null subjects due to the strength of AGRP but not to identify them. Therefore only expletive subjects can be absent in German, except for…
Descriptors: German, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Polish