Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 758–763
Commentary
Grammar acquisition and grammar choice in the variationist model
Published online: 26 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18087.roe
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18087.roe
Article outline
- 1.Pro-drop: Missing subjects and missing objects
- 2.Articles and semantic/pragmatic variation
- 3.Tense and semantic variation
- 4.V2
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