Existential-Presentational Sentences in Second Language Acquisition [electronic resource] / Mark Balhorn.

A study extended previous research on second language learners' use of interlanguage knowledge in making grammaticality judgments. The grammatical construction under consideration is the existential-presentational (E-P) sentence. This construction is described, and it is shown how, due to unive...

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Main Author: Balhorn, Mark
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Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.
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650 0 7 |a Second Language Learning.  |2 ericd. 
650 1 7 |a Second Languages.  |2 ericd. 
650 1 7 |a Sentence Structure.  |2 ericd. 
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