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Do Non-Native Grammars Allow Verbs to Raise to Agreement?

The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether the setting of the verb movement parameter in L2 is dependent on agreement acquisition. The Optionality hypothesis (Eubank, 1994) is tested by examining the L2 grammar of Chinese learners of English. To test this hypothesis, the sentence matching procedure originally described in Freedman and Forster (1985) is used. It is found that no current theory truly accounts for the results that are obtained.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc278814
Date12 1900
CreatorsGrace, Sabine Thepaut
ContributorsEubank, Lynn, Beck, Maria-Luise, Carey, Kathleen
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 69 leaves : ill., Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Grace, Sabine Thepaut

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