Elena Gavruseva

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Gavruseva is involved.

Title

Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective

Edited by Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva

This volume presents recent generative research on the nature of grammars of child second language (L2) acquirers -- a learner population whose exposure to an L2 occurs between the ages of 4 to 8. The main goal is to define child L2 acquisition in relation to other types of acquisition such as… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] 2008. vi, 363 pp.

Articles

Gavruseva, Elena 2008 The development of copula and auxiliary be and overgeneration of be in child L2 English Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 145–175 | Article

This articles examines an asymmetry in the acquisition of copula and auxiliarybe in a longitudinal corpus of English-acquiring consecutive bilinguals (ages 6;4–9;2). I argue that a delay in the productive use of auxiliary be vis-à-vis the copula can be explained under a theory of early L2 grammar… read more

Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva 2008 Recent perspectives in child second language acquisition Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 3–15 | Article

Gavruseva, Elena 2003 L2 root infinitives uprooted and revisited EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 57–75 | Article

Recent work on child L2 acquisition of English demonstrates that root infinitives (RIs) abound in early language (Gavruseva and Lardière 1996, Haznedar and Schwarz 1997). This paper aims to show that current approaches to RIs (Rizzi 1993/94, Prévost and White 2000) fail to account for the… read more