Recent research in the area of Second Language Acquisition has proposed that bilinguals and L2 learners show syntactic indeterminacy when syntactic properties interface with other cognitive domains. Most of the research in this area has focused on the pragmatic use of syntactic properties while the investigation of compliance with a grammatical rule at syntax-related interfaces has not received...

recent research in the area of second language acquisition has proposed that bilinguals and l2 learners show syntactic indeterminacy when syntactic properties interface with other cognitive domains. most of the research in this area has focused on the pragmatic use of syntactic properties while the investigation of compliance with a grammatical rule at syntax-related interfaces has not received...

the present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced iranian learners of english as a foreign language. the study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and wh-clefts. after taking the nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

During the last decades, linguistic theory has been concerned with the syntaxsemantics interface, mainly with issues linked to scope of operators (negation, quantifiers, modals) and with the syntactic or semantic nature of structural representations. One important trend in syntactic theory (for instance the cartographic approach) is devoted to the syntax-pragmatics interface, with strong argume...

This paper focuses on the microvariation concerning distribution and functions of certain interrogative discourse particles found in several central southern Italian dialects. These show many similarities terms both their morphological shapes (being homophonous to wh-phrase corresponding English ‘what’) syntactic within sentence, that they all occur at beginning polar questions. However, a care...

The present study examines the interface between syntax and discourse-pragmatics in the production of verb second (V2) structures in a corpus of English texts by advanced L1 German and Dutch speakers. The evidence shows that the residual V2 produced by the learner groups studied is the result of a deficit at the interface rather than the transfer of narrow V2 syntax per se. The analysis offered...