Amaya Mendikoetxea

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Autonomous University of Madrid

Full text: http://rdcu.be/Gkk5 This paper shows the need to triangulate different approaches in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research to fully understand late bilinguals’ interlanguage grammars. Methodologically, we show how experimental and corpus data can be (and should be) triangulated by reporting on a corpus study (Loza...

This chapter discusses the use of learner corpora in the study of second language (L2) Spanish acquisition. It describes the most relevant projects as examples of what learner corpora can contribute to the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and defines learner corpora and learner corpus research. Two currently available L2 Spanish learner...

Second language acquisition (SLA) research has traditionally relied on elicited experimental data, and it has disfavoured natural language use data. Learner corpus research has the potential to change this but, to date, the research has contributed little to the interpretation of L2 acquisition, and some of the corpora are flawed in design. We anal...

Introduction: a classification of se constructionsThe status of seThe syntax and semantics of arbitrary se constructions: passives, impersonals, and middlesThe syntax and semantics of anaphoric “se” constructionsConcluding remarksReferences

This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)–S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish–L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces:...

The validity and reliability of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) hypotheses rest heavily on adequate methods of data gathering. In this paper, we analyse the reasons why many SLA researchers are still reticent about using corpora and how good corpus design and adequate tools to annotate and search corpora could help overcome some of the problems o...

The purpose of this article is to characterise the production of postverbal subjects in two ICLE subcorpora (Italian and Spanish). The question has been dealt with before in the literature with emphasis on the production of ungrammatical inversion structures in L2 English of speakers from a variety of L1s, but in quite a scattered, unsystematic and...

This paper provides an overview of the syntax and semantics of Romance clitic impersonal constructions (CL-ICs), as present in the grammars of Spanish and Italian, within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Syntactically, these structures are characterised by the presence of the clitic se/si, which is analysed as a 0-person clitic, along with...

Though there is a long tradition of research into word order phenomena in Second Language (L2) acquisition, this area of enquiry has recently been given a new impetus both from theoretical developments on the form-function interplay and, crucially, from the emergence of learner corpora This paper focuses on a particular phenomenon which

The present article reviews some aspects of the content of a new reference grammar of English, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, while reflecting on the process of writing grammars at the beginning of the 2lst century, particularly regarding the relation between theory and description. It is not my goal to offer a comprehensive review...

AI3STRACT This papen angues in faveur of inlroducing Penlmuiler's (1978) (inaccusative Ely-perbesis mio descniptive and pedagogical grammans of English. We show lhat verbs which have iradiíionally been elassified as iniransilive venbs eecurring in clauses of ihe type SV belong, in fact, te lwo different verb classes: unaccusalive atid unerga-lives,...

On the intricate relation between theory and description: A linguist’s look at The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.