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The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker

The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker

González, Luis H.

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Series: Verber, Verbed Grammar

General ReferenceLinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 036768831X
ISBN13: 9780367688318
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker presents a data-driven approach to understanding how native speakers do not use subject and direct object to process language.

Native speakers know who does what in a sentence by applying intuitively two simple inferences that are argued to be part of universal grammar. The book explains and exemplifies these two inferences throughout. These two inferences explain the native speaker's ease of acquisition and use, and answer difficult questions for linguistics (transitivity, case, semantic roles) in such a way that undergraduate students and second language learners can understand these concepts and apply them to their own language acquisition. While Spanish is used as the primary example, the theory can be applied to many other languages.

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