Dummy Auxiliaries in First and Second Language Acquisition

Dummy auxiliaries are seemingly superfluous words that appear in learner varieties across languages. This volume is an up-to-date overview of research on dummy auxiliaries with contributions covering English, Dutch, German, French, Cypriot-Greek, first and second language acquisition, and specific language impairment as well as dialectal variation.



Elma Blom, Josje Verhagen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Ineke van de Craats, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.