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Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries to Improve the Analysis of Second Language Data:

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries to Improve the Analysis of Second Language Data:

A Study of Copula Choice with Adjectives in Spanish

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This volume focuses on the acquisition of the two Spanish copular verbs, ser 'to be' and estar 'to be', by English-speaking adult learners. It outlines a cross-disciplinary approach in which syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features are assessed as predictors of copula choice. This new model of analysis, which uses several variables that are simultaneously present in the discourse context, provides a description of learner language while focusing on language use. This research has implications for theoretical and sociolinguistic approaches to copula choice, and is generalizable to other areas...