Overt and Null Subjects in Bulgarian and in L1 Bulgarian-L2 German Interlanguage
Overt and Null Subjects in Bulgarian and in L1 Bulgarian-L2 German Interlanguage
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Author(s): Genevska-Hanke, Dobrinka
ISBN No.: 9781527523531
Pages: 305
Year: 201903
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 121.22
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This work addresses the realization of pronominal subjects in Bulgarian and its implications for late near-native competence of German as a second/foreign language. Since Bulgarian is under-researched, typological investigations were carried out prior to the empirical study of L2 subject use. The book covers the adequate classification of Bulgarian, ascertaining its pro-drop nature, and explores the possible impact of related cross-linguistic differences on near-native interlanguage grammars of speakers with the language combination L1-Bulgarian/L2-German. Although German is not pro-drop, it allows null topics and requires some obligatory null expletives, so that null subject contexts superficially overlap for the two languages. This is a source of interlanguage deficits if no proper differentiation between subject types is made.


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