Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade
Edited by Bettelou Los and Pieter de Haan
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 243] 2017. ix, 376 pp.
Pieter de Haan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pieter de Haan plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2017 Chapter 15. The EFL teacher's nightmare: Information structure transfer from L2 English to L1 Dutch Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 337–351 | Chapter
This chapter reports on a study of two small dedicated corpora of L1 Dutch and Dutch translations by Dutch students of English. The study illustrates the syntactic challenges students face translating from English into Dutch, especially in word order differences and their consequences for… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Introduction Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Chapter
2013 Assessing the use of sophisticated EFL writing: A longitudinal study Writing Assessment in Higher Education, Weltens, Bert, Jos Hornikx, Wander Lowie, Petra Poelmans and Rebecca L. Present-Thomas (eds.), pp. 16–27 | Article
Even very advanced EFL writing tends to be less sophisticated than native writing. One of the problems seems to be finding the right collocations and the correct register. The aim of this article is to pinpoint what characterizes the development in very advanced Dutch EFL students’ written… read more
2013 Information Structure: The final hurdle? The development of syntactic structures in (very) advanced Dutch EFL writing Writing Assessment in Higher Education, Weltens, Bert, Jos Hornikx, Wander Lowie, Petra Poelmans and Rebecca L. Present-Thomas (eds.), pp. 92–107 | Article
Although texts produced by (very) advanced Dutch learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) may be perfectly grammatical, they often feel distinctly non-native. Dutch, as a verb-second language, makes separate positions available for discourse linking and aboutness-topics. Although the… read more