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In:Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
[Benjamins Current Topics 108] 2020
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Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and learner corpus research

 | University of Hamburg
 | University of Bamberg
Published online: 1 July 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.The expression of temporality as a central issue in Second Language Acquisition
  • 2.Approaches toward tense and aspect
    • 2.1The Aspect Hypothesis
    • 2.2Testing SLA hypotheses empirically: Usage-based approaches
    • 2.3Cross-linguistic influence
  • 3.Challenges and opportunities of corpus approaches to the acquisition of tense and aspect
  • 4.Beyond SLA: Modeling pluricentric languages
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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