Books /Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

9781647266424

Clanrye International

English

2023

Language, Literature and Linguistics - Language, Literature and Linguistics

USD 135.95

Second language acquisition (SLA) refers to the process of acquiring a second language. It is a sub-field of applied linguistics. Morphosyntax refers to the area of study which focuses on the morphological and syntactic properties of grammatical or linguistic units. Morphosyntactic issues are a class of syntactic errors, which are caused due to the misconception of the syntactic rules. The different morphosyntactic issues that occur while learning a second language are language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology, and the pragmatics of language. Functional morphology is widely considered to be the bottleneck of language acquisition since morphology is more difficult to acquire than other linguistic domains such as syntax, semantics, and phonology since it combines these domains. This book provides comprehensive insights on the different morphosyntactic issues faced by second language learners. It can prove to be an essential guide for linguists, applied linguists, and graduate researchers of SLA.