The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

Kristof Baten | Ghent University

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This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position to marking the argument’s actual function. Theoretically couched within Processability Theory, the book deals with the feature unification and the mapping processes involved in case marking, and critically examines previous findings on German case acquisition. Empirically, the book consists of longitudinal data of 11 foreign language learners of German, which was collected over a period of 2 years. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of German and in the acquisition of case systems in general.

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 2] 2013. xvii, 304 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 July 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.2

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x

List of tables | pp. xi–xiv

List of figures | pp. xv–xvi

List of abbreviations | pp. xvii–xviii

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–16

Chapter 2. The developmental problem in second language acquisition | pp. 17–50

Chapter 3. The acquisition of the German case system | pp. 51–110

Chapter 4. Feature unification and linking in case marking | pp. 111–140

Chapter 5. Methodology | pp. 141–158

Chapter 6. Results and discussion | pp. 159–282

Chapter 7. General conclusion | pp. 283–288

References | pp. 289–300

Appendix | pp. 301–302

Index | pp. 303–304

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