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Proceedings of the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006): The Banff Conference
edited by Mary Grantham O'Brien, Christine Shea, and John Archibald

ISBN 1-57473-416-4 library binding
v+161 pages
publication date: 2006
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA

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Abstract

Laurent Dekydtspotter and Rebecca A. Petrush
On the Acquisition of ne ... que 'only' in English-French
25-32 (complete pdf)

The manner in which English-French learners acquire the bipartite ne ... que construction is examined. The possibility that learners store the structure whole as a 'formula' specifying its semantics as that of only is contrasted with the possibility that learners treat the structure compositionally as implicating negation and an existential exceptive phrase. The two treatments make different predictions in the area of scope relations with intensional verbs. It is shown that English-French interlanguage shows reflexes that are highly suggestive of a compositional treatment. This is also the case for learners with little or no prior experience with the structure.


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