@misc{10481/22166,
year = {2006},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/22166},
abstract = {Recent acquisitional studies reveal that formal properties at the lexicon-syntax interface are in place before discursive properties at the syntax-information structure interface. It has been argued that this phenomenon results from learners’ deficits with interpretable discursive features like [focus]. This study claims that the phenomenon derives from learners’ deficits with the un-interpretable formal features responsible for regulating the occurrence of discursive focus, whereas learners’ representation of interpretable focus features are intact.
This claim was tested by conducting a study with Greek learners of non-native Spanish at three proficiency levels. Learners judged Subject-Verb and Verb-Subject order with intransitives (unergatives and unaccusatives), which is constrained both formally (Unaccusative Hypothesis at the lexicon-syntax interface) and discursively (presentational focus at the syntax-information structure interface).},
organization = {Economic and social research council (ESRC), UK / Reino Unido. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia},
keywords = {Second language acquisition},
keywords = {Adquisición de segundas lenguas},
keywords = {Syntax-discourse interface},
keywords = {Information structure},
keywords = {Estructura informativa},
keywords = {Word order},
keywords = {Orden de palabras},
keywords = {Unaccusatives},
keywords = {Unergatives},
keywords = {L2 Spanish},
keywords = {Español como segunda lengua},
title = {The development of the syntax-discourse interface: Greek learners of Spanish},
author = {Lozano, Cristóbal},
}