Eintrag

Titel

Transferring information-structural patterns from Swedish to German

Personen

Ute Bohnacker, Christina Rosén

Jahr

2007

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference

Seiten

27 - 38

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Schwedisch

Schlagwörter

Informationsstruktur
Spracherwerb
Syntax
Wortstellung

Abstract

This paper deals with the L2 acquisition of German and the influence of a closely related L1, Swedish, in the domains of syntax (word order) and information structure. Contrary to existing claims in the literature on the nonnative acquisition of verb-second (V2) languages, Bohnacker (2005, 2006) found that Swedish learners of German are able to produce non-subject-initial V2 declaratives early on, suggesting that V2 transfers from the L1 grammar. The present paper investigates Bohnacker's data, as well as new cross-sectional production data from L2ers at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels and from native Swedish and German controls (Rosen 2006), with respect to the linguistic material in the clause-initial position of V2 declaratives.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/37000