{"product_id":"9789401049023","title":"Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics: A Study of Null-Prep","description":"\u003ch1\u003eStudies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics: A Study of Null-Prep\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKlein, E.C.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition  (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform  linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers new  perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship between  first and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar (UG), and the  target language input. Specifically, examination of the L2 development  of pied-piping and preposition stranding in English questions and  relative clauses shows that the required preposition is frequently  omitted by learners who have demonstrated accurate subcategorization  knowledge of verbal complements in related declarative constructions.  The `null-prep' data in the L2 grammar leads to an important  cross-linguistic investigation of this largely ignored syntactic  phenomenon in the world's languages; it also motivates exploration of  the complex English input learners receive as positive evidence. An  analysis of null-prep, piping and stranding is posited, including the  relevant principles and parameters of UG involved. Based on this  linguistic analysis, alternative explanations for the L2 phenomenon  are offered, representing challenges to UG and markedness-based  accounts of second language acquisition. Such challenges will be of  interest to linguists as well as to students, teachers, reseachers and  scholars interested in second language acquisition, particularly in  its relationship to UG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-09-25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789401049023\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-2038-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 229cm x152cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 292\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378897707148,"sku":"9789401049023","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789401049023.jpg?v=1777981166","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789401049023","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}