Negation in early German-English Interlanguage

More Valueless Features in the L2 initial state

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5836065
AutoresLynn Eubank (University of North Texas, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume12
Fascículo1
Páginas73-106
Data de publicação1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSecond language Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/026765839601200104
OpenAlexW1985932820
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas93
Referências citadas14

In Eubank (1993/94), I argued that the apparent syntactic optionality one observes in, for example, the placement of medial adverbs vis-à-vis thematic verbs in French-English Interlanguage can be explained if one assumes that the relevant parametric values of French do not transfer into the English L2 initial state. What one finds instead is a nonvalue of sorts, which I dubbed . In this article, I extend this view of 'Valueless Features' by examining data from Wode (1981) on the L2 acquisition of English by speakers of German. In fact, what I show here is that, in spite of important differences between the French-English and the German-English data, Valueless Features extends in a fairly natural way. In addition, however, I also examine two views that differ from Valueless Features, namely, the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis of Schwartz and Sprouse (e.g., 1994) and the Minimal Trees of Vainikka and Young-Scholten (1994). Here, a careful review of the acquisitional data - either the French-English data or the German-English data - suggests that these views may not be as straightforward as they may otherwise appear

Argument (complex analysis · Interlanguage · Negation · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation