L3 acquisition of german adjectival inflection: A generative account

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-105

  Jaensch, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adjective; Distributed morphology; feature valuation; generative grammar; German; grammatical gender; inflection; morphosyntax; number; third language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650476846     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658310386646     Document Type: Article

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