Cleft and Case: Two Sources of Interference for FL Learners.

Hopkins, Edwin A.

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Cleft and Case: Two Sources of Interference for FL Learners

Hopkins, Edwin A.

Unterrichtspraxis, 8, 2, 27-38, Aut 75

Examines errors made by English speakers learning German and, in attempting to find sources for them, contrasts certain phenomena of German and English grammar. The phenomena in question are cleft sentences and the treatment of case. (TL)

Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, German, Interference (Language), Language Instruction, Pronouns, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar

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