The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language
Angelika Becker and Mary Carroll
[Studies in Bilingualism, 11] 1997. xii, 212 pp.
Mary Carroll
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary Carroll plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Utterance Structure: Developing grammars again
Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue
[Studies in Bilingualism, 5] 1992. xvi, 354 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2022 Under the surface: A survey of principles of language use in advanced L2 speakers Language, Interaction and Acquisition 13:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
Through a survey of crosslinguistic empirical studies on narratives and in the domain of motion events, we argue that the principles of language use pose a hurdle for second language acquisition, an issue that has not been given adequate attention in earlier research. These principles are part… read more
2018 Texts as answers to questions: Information structure and its grammatical underpinnings in narratives and descriptions in German and English (topic and anaphoric linkage) Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages, Hübl, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 67–92 | Chapter
Text production requires the speaker to plan and formulate a coherent text in which information at the micro structural level is embedded and licensed by structures established at the macro structural level. The present paper addresses questions concerning the principles the speaker can rely on… read more
2012 Tracing trajectories: Motion event construal by advanced L2 French-English and L2 French-German speakers Typological perspectives on second language acquisition: ‘Thinking for Speaking’ in L2: Perspectives typologiques sur l’acquisition d’une langue seconde: ‘Penser pour Parler’ en L2, Benazzo, Sandra, Monique Flecken and Efstathia Soroli (eds.), pp. 202–230 | Article
Although the typological contrast between Romance and Germanic languages as verb-framed versus satellite-framed (Talmy 1985) forms the background for many empirical studies on L2 acquisition, the inconclusive picture to date calls for more differentiated, fine-grained analyses. The present study… read more
2008 Subordination in narratives and macro-structural planning: A comparative point of view 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine and Wiebke Ramm (eds.), pp. 161–184 | Article
2003 Information structure in narratives and the role of grammaticised knowledge: A study of adult French and German learners of English Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition, Dimroth, Christine and Marianne Starren (eds.), pp. 267–287 | Article
2003 5. Two ways of construing complex temporal structures Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person, Lenz, Friedrich (ed.), pp. 97–133 | Article