Abstract
This paper focuses on the acquisition of word order in German by adult native speakers of Spanish in an institutional context (longitudinal study) and a contrastive study on children and adolescent acquisition using transversal tests. The theoretical framework is based on generative grammar analysis proposed for verb placement in German and a review of recent acquisition studies. Analyses of verb movement account for an underlying subject-verb-object order for all languages proposed by Zwart (1993, 1997) based on parallel works by Kayne (1993, 1994) and Chomsky (1993, 1995).
Highlights
This paper hopes to provide more evidence for the German Interlanguage of Spanish speakers with English as L2 and German as L3
Studies have provided evidence on the acquisition of word order in German observing results of a longitudinal corpus focusing on adult native speakers of Spanish in an institutional context
The superficial word order we find in the oral and written language are considered to be a result of verb and object movement
Summary
This paper hopes to provide more evidence for the German Interlanguage of Spanish speakers with English as L2 and German as L3. Studies have provided evidence on the acquisition of word order in German observing results of a longitudinal corpus focusing on adult native speakers of Spanish in an institutional context (all of the students studied English as L2). A transversal corpus provides data from Spanish children and adolescents with English L2 and German L3. In. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses addition to this longitudinal corpus, three transversal tests were carried out on our subjects and results were contrasted with those of native German speakers. The transversal corpus carried out by Martínez (2005) stems from children and adolescents from 9 to 16 years old. Some of these children are native speakers of basque. The interlanguage of these should provide more evidence for the “Initial Syntax Hypothesis of Platzack” (1996)
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