The Development of Grammar in Spanish and the Romance Languages
Description
Researchers in Romance languages will find this book a stimulating and broad-ranging treatment of the development of grammar, demonstrating the relevance of markedness for both linguistic theory and language teaching. A substantial and original account of a unique body of data, across first and second language acquisition, creolization and historical linguistics and across a wide range of languages and contact varieties, demonstrates a new impetus and predictive force for markedness theory.
Keywords
LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONCREOLE DIALECTSHISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
2003Book
Author(s)Eduardo D. Faingold
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781403900524
LanguageEnglish
