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Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish Syllabus, Ewelina Barski Dec 2009

Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish Syllabus, Ewelina Barski

Ewelina Barski, PhD

This is the syllabus of my 3rd year Spanish course on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. It covers theory related to SLA and looks at different studies that investigated the topic at hand.


Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul Dec 2009

Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper analyzes specificational sentences in Malagasy and shows that such sentences involve obligatory inversion, marked by the topic particle dia. I argue that the topicalized element is a small clause predicate that inverts with its subject. Two competing analyses of this inversion are compared and contrasted. I conclude with a brief comparison of Malagasy and Tagalog.