Studies of L_1 influence upon L_2 learning have heretofore drawn their data largely from repositories delimited by the phonology-to-semantics framework of mainstream linguistics. There are, however, other and more subtle influences of L_1 upon L_2 for...
Studies of L_1 influence upon L_2 learning have heretofore drawn their data largely from repositories delimited by the phonology-to-semantics framework of mainstream linguistics. There are, however, other and more subtle influences of L_1 upon L_2 for which this conventional descriptive framework is inadeguate. This thesis examines word order in the English interlanguage of one natiae Korean speaker. The study is approached from the standpoint of determining how both the topic-prominent as well as the subject-prominent nature of Korean affects these features in the interlanguage.
It was found that the basic word order in the interlanguage of the subject is clearly SVO, while topic comment structures make up approximately one fourth of all.