Second Language Syntax: A Generative Introduction - Hardcover

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Roger Hawkins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. He is the author of Approaches to Second Language Acquisition and French Grammar and Usage (both written in collaboration with Richard Towell).

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• How do second language learners come to know the combinatorial properties of words and phrases -- the syntax - of the languages they are learning?
  
• Do they develop knowledge systematically or randomly?
  
• Can they acquire the same range of syntactic knowledge as native speakers of their target language?
  
• What effects might different kinds of exposure to the second language have on their knowledge?
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Second Language Syntax presupposes that readers have some knowledge of the aims of linguistic enquiry, but does not assume that they are familiar with either research on second language syntax or the Principles and Parameters framework. Each chapter includes a set of exercises to promote assimilation of the material, as well as suggestions for further reading.