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OverviewConsiders second language acquisition by adult immigrants and, more specifically, the acquisition of temporality in five European languages. The text provides an account of how adult learners express temporality at any given stage of acquisition and how they proceed from one stage to the next. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rainer Dietrich , Wolfgang Klein , Colette Noyau , Josée CoenenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 7 Weight: 0.690kg ISBN: 9789027241092ISBN 10: 9027241090 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 24 August 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Dietrich, Rainer); 3. Frame of analysis (by Klein, Wolfgang); 4. The acquisition of English (by Klein, Wolfgang); 5. The acquisition of German (by Dietrich, Rainer); 6. The acquisition of Dutch (by Klein, Wolfgang); 7. The acquisition of French (by Noyau, Colette); 8. The acquisition of Swedish (by Noyau, Colette); 9. Conclusions (by Klein, Wolfgang); 10. Author Index; 11. Subject indexReviewsThis report brings together, on a single database, observations that have been made in a variety of sources, by a variety of researchers, and on a range of learners, but that could previously only be pieced together cautiously to form a hypothesis of how interlanguage temporality develops over time. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in tense and aspect specifically or temporality in general. -- Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |