Researchers in Romance languages will find this book a stimulating and broad-ranging treatment of the development of grammar, demonstrating the relevance of markedness for both linguistic theory and language teaching. A substantial and original account of a unique body of data, across first and second language acquisition, creolization and historical linguistics and across a wide range of languages and contact varieties, demonstrates a new impetus and predictive force for markedness theory.

Autorentext
EDUARDO D. FAINGOLD is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of three other books ( Child Language, Creolization, and Historical Change: Spanish in Contact with Portuguese; Codice de Composicion ; and Multilingualism from Infancy to Adolescence ) and has held visiting appointments at UCLA, SUNY Stony Brook, The Hebrew University, the University of Hawaii, and the Max Planck Institute.

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Introduction Articles Demonstrative Pronouns Prepositions and Adverbs Subjunctive Verbs The Mental Representation of Linguistic Markedness Summary and Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index