Finitness and Verb-Raising in Second Language Acquisition of French by Native Speakers of Moroccan Arabic
Description:
In this thesis, the three hypotheses on the nature of early L2 acquisition (the Full Transfer/Full Access view of Schwartz and Sprouse (e.g., 1996), the Minimal Trees view of Vainikka and Young-Scholten (e.g., 1996), and the Valueless Features view of Eubank (e.g., 1996)), are discussed. Analysis of the early French production by two native speakers of Moroccan Arabic is done to determine if the L1 grammar is transferred onto the L2 grammar. In particular, the phenomena of verb-raising (as dete…
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Date:
August 1996
Creator:
Aboutaj, Heidi H. (Heidi Huttar)
Partner:
UNT Libraries