The (mis-)use of the English definite article in relation to the ‘of-phrase’ construction by speakers of Jordanian-Arabic and Cypriot-Greek

A plethora of second-language (L2) acquisition studies have tested the acquisition of English determiners in relation to simple noun phrases (NPs) of the generic versus non-generic type (e.g., Ionin., et al., 2008; Momenzadea & Youhanaeeb, 2014) rather than complex NPs, such as the ‘of-phrase’ c...

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Main Authors: Asma Al-hawi, Sviatlana Karpava
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: White Rose University Press 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of the European Second Language Association
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Online Access:https://www.euroslajournal.org/articles/64