L2 Greek morphological agreement
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2011/04/0021/000190Keywords:
L2 acquisition, morphological agreementAbstract
This is a study of morphological agreement in L2 Greek verbal and nominal domains by L1 Russian, Bulgarian, and Turkish speakers, with various features such as person, number, gender, and case involved, following Tsimpli et al. 2005. Russian, Bulgarian, and Greek are similar in terms of phi-feature agreement, but different from Turkish. A further distinction will be made for the L2 Greek, between Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek. The analysis of the oral interviews shows that gender, an uninterpretable feature that lacks semantic content (Tsimpli 2004, Franceshina 2001), was the most problematic feature for non-native speakers of Greek, both in the verbal and in the nominal domain. L2 learners either relied on phonological agreement or used the default neuter gender.
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