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- Bohnacker, Ute
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On the “vulnerability” of syntactic domains in Swedish and German
- 2007
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In: Language Acquisition. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1048-9223 .- 1532-7817. ; 14:1, s. 31-73
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Thispaper investigates the L2 acquisition of clausal syntax in post-puberty learnersof German and Swedish regarding V2, VP headedness and verb particleconstructions. The learner data are tested against L2 theories according towhich lower structural projections (VP) are acquired before higher functionalprojections (IP, CP), VP syntax is unproblematic (invulnerable), but where grammatical operations related to thetopmost level of syntactic structure (CP) are acquired late (e.g. Platzack’s(2001) vulnerable C-domain). It willbe shown that such theories do not hold water: native speakers of Swedishlearning German and native speakers of German learning Swedish both master V2from early on. At the same time, these learners exhibit a nontargetlike syntaxat lower structural levels: residual VO in the case of the Swedish-L1 learnersof German, and persistent nontarget transitive verb particle constructions inthe German-L1 learners of Swedish. I argue that these findings are bestexplained by assuming full transfer of L1 syntax (e.g. Schwartz & Sprouse 1996).
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- Carlson, Erik
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Higher values and non-Archimedean additivity
- 2007
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In: Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy. - : Wiley. - 0040-5825 .- 1755-2567. ; 73, s. 3-27
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Many philosophers have claimed that extensive or additive measurement is incompatible with the existence of "higher values", any amount of which is better than any amount of some other value. In this paper, it is shown that higher values can be incorporated in a non-standard model of extensive measurement, with values represented by sets of ordered pairs of real numbers, rather than by single reals. The suggested model is mathematically fairly simple, and it applies to structures including negative as well as positive values.
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