Argument Realization in French and Spanish Second Languag...
Work, Nicola
For learners to become competent speakers of a language, they have to learn the inventory of morphosyntactic constructions in the language and use them in pragmatically appropriate ways (mapping universal pragmatic principles onto language specific structures, selecting only those options that are syntactically possible). Taking into account that languages vary in the way discourse notions such as TOPIC and FOCUS are mapped onto syntactic stru...