Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese

Shigenori Wakabayashi is Professor at the Gunmar Prefectural Women's University, Gunmar Japan.

• VP structuresShunji Inagaki Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs Makiko Hirakawa Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 EnglishFunctional categoriesKoji Suda and Shigenori Wakabayashi The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage Tomohiko Shirahata The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English Hiromasa Ohba Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars Chieko Kuribara Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in EnglishNew empirical dataShigenori Wakabayashi and Izumi Okawara Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions Yuichi Tomita, Kazuhiko Fukuda, and Natsuko Tatsuta N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest