TY - BOOK AU - Fukuda,Kazuhiko AU - Hirakawa,Makiko AU - Inagaki,Shunji AU - Kuribara,Chieko AU - Ohba,Hiromasa AU - Okawara,Izumi AU - Shirahata,Tomohiko AU - Suda,Koji AU - Tatsuta,Natsuko AU - Tomita,Yuichi AU - Wakabayashi,Shigenori TI - Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese T2 - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , SN - 9783110176599 AV - PE1130.J3 G46 2002eb U1 - 428/.0089/956 21 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - English language KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Japanese KW - Study and teaching KW - Japanese speakers KW - Japanese language KW - English KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Japanisch /Sprache KW - Spracherwerb KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-IV --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA? --; I: VP structures --; Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs --; Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English --; II: Functional categories --; The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage --; The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English --; Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars --; Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English --; III: New empirical data --; Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions --; N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest --; List of contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. It deals with a wide range of topics from the acquisiton of VP structures to functional categories and presents new empirical data. The studies all contribute to our understanding of these topics, and they are of current interest to researchers working on Second Language Acquisition UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892468 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110892468 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110892468/original ER -