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VanPatten, Bill; Smith, Megan – Second Language Research, 2019
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Classification
Laar, Malle – 1998
Teaching medical English presupposes knowledge about its vocabulary composition. the role of Latin (and also Greek) elements in the vocabulary can be shown through statistical methods. English medical vocabulary appears to contain two kinds of Latin vocabulary elements: words of Latin origin in the general vocabulary of English and words and terms…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach