Grammar Competition in Second Language Acquisition

The Case of English Non-Verbal Predicates for Indonesian L1 Speakers
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-162177-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: ISSN

Anybody with the chance of teaching English to Indonesian speakers should have experienced difficulties when it comes to non-verbal predicates and the placement of . This volume looks at this matter from a grammar competition perspective.
An experiment conducted in Bandar Lampung with Indonesian learners of English identified specific error patterns. These patterns result from grammar competition between the L1 Indonesian and the L2 English. This work mainly deals with the influence of adverbs such as or , and the category of the non-verbal predicate (adjectival, nominal, preposition phrase).
Although the main focus of this work is in the field of language acquisition, this volume also provides a detailed contrast between English and Indonesian non-verbal predicates and the contrast of the English copula and the Indonesian copulas and . The lingusitic description is done in a generative DM-based approach. Thus, this volume does not only provide new insights in the field language acquisiton, but also in the generative description of Indonesian in general and non-verbal predicates in particular.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Linguistics, especially Language Acquisi

Autoren/Hrsg.

Besier, Dominik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

Dominik Besier, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

Dominik Besier, Wuppertal University, Germany.