8. The acquisition of verb categories and word order in Dutch & German: evidence from first and second language acquisition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1. Learnability and second languages: an introduction 1
4. 2. L2 acquisition: logical problems and empirical solutions 9
5. 3. Universal grammar and language transfer 36
6. 4. The relation between linguistic theory and second language acquisition: a biological perspective 61
7. 5. Syntax and stylistics: more on the pro-drop parame 71
8. 6. Late-learned rules in first and second language acquisition 94
9. 7. Configurationality and the subset principle: the acquisition of V1 by Japanese learners of English 116
10. 8. The acquisition of verb categories and word order in Dutch & German: evidence from first and second language acquisition 132
11. 9. Linguistic intuitions in interlanguage development: the problem of indeterminacy 167
12. References 191