Essay On Word Order

There were two explanations offered by the author for the registered changes in word order patterns: cross-linguistic influence from Dutch and language internal pressures. The former concerns a strategy to adopt word order as a clue when interpreting sentences, which is common among Dutch speakers and might have been transferred by the Turkish immigrants into Turkish sentence interpretation. The latter concerns language internal restructuring towards a more consistent pattern. For example, the more common word order in L1 might become the only word order used by an L1 speaker living in the L2 environment, and this change might be independent of whether this word order pertains to L2 or not. The evidence came from the preference shown by the Turkish immigrants to stick to the canonical SVO order. The conclusion was that the language changes were partly induced by L2 interference and partly caused by universal intra-language processes, or what was defined earlier as language internal pressures. The latter is also known as ‘language internal universal principles’. According to this principle, “an ongoing word order change will always move towards a consistent basic word order pattern, in terms of the general Head-Modifier order” (Schaufeli, 1996, p. 156).

Errors in the use of plural s/es, for example: I have a lot of doll. Errors in the use of articles, omission of the article 'the', for example: At the end of term. The other strategies used by learners was "Interalingual Errors", result from effect of one language item upon another. Overgeneralization refer to the Interalingual Errors in which a learner extend the use of a grammatical rule beyond its expected