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The Role of "Is" in the Acquisition of Finiteness by Adult Turkish Learners of Dutch
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van de Craats, Ineke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This article deals with the interlanguage of adult second language (L2) learners acquiring finiteness. Due to the inaccessibility of bound inflectional morphology, learners use free morphology to mark a syntactic relationship as well as person and number features separately from the thematic verb, expressed by a pattern like "the man is go".…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Indo European Languages, Interlanguage