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Subject(s)

• Second language acquisition [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general [Browse]
• Interlanguage (Language learning) [Browse]
• Principles and parameters (Linguistics) [Browse]

Series

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-311) and index.

Contents

• Universal grammar and language acquisition
• Principles of universal grammar in L2 acquisition
• The initial state
• Grammars beyond the initial state: parameters and functional categories
• The transition problem, triggering and input
• Morphological variability and the morphology/syntax interface
• Argument structure
• Ultimate attainment: the nature of steady state.

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ISBN

• 0521792053 (hardback)
• 9780521792059 (hardback)
• 0521796474 (pbk.)
• 9780521796477 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002031058

OCLC

50280153

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