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In:Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research
Alan Juffs
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 12] 1996
► pp. vii–xii

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Published online: 23 August 1996

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Table of contents

Acknowledgmentsxiii

1. Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, and the lexicon1

2. Generative approaches to semantic-syntax correspondences32

3. Semantic structure: crosslinguistic patterns and constraints76

4. Acquiring Semantic-Syntax Correspondences128

5. Testing knowledge of semantic-syntax correspondences in a second language169

6. Analysis and discussion205

7. Epilogue230

References237

Appendix I: English Locative Verbs253

Appendix II: Chinese Locative Verbs and Arguments Structures255

Appendix III: Test of Verb Meanings259

Appendix IV: Production task261

Appendix V: Grammaticality Judgement Task262

Index267