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...stic definition of morphologyis “the mental system involved in word formation or the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed”Aronoff & Fudeman (2011: 2). Moreover, they believe that morphologyshould not be only a secondary data source in theories for analyzing other language elements but it has to be handled in its own as a subject of study. Syntax “is a term used for the study of rules governing the way words and combined to form sentences” (Finch, 2000: 77). Hence, syntax is concerned with the way that sentence is structured. Similarly, Bell (1991) states that syntax is the knowledge of manipulating sentence elements in the chain and choice of the system within the proposition semantic unite. He defines syntactic knowledge as a “matter of knowing what elements exist in a language and how they may be legitimately combined” (ibid: 207).We have mentioned earlier in this paper that many researches have been conducted to investigate SLA issues. Among these issues is the morphosyntactic issue which is the focus of the current paper. © Center for Promoting Ideas, USA www.ijhssnet.com 287 The main subject of such researches is that learners of ...

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... simple sentence due to the different word-order and sentence structure between Malay language and English in term of morphology and syntax. Key Words:Second language acquisition, Syntax, Morphology, Academic witting, Minimalist Program. 1. Introduction 1.1. Background of the Study For the last 50 years and onwards, linguists and scholars have conducted many researches in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) (Gabrys-Barker, 2008). Many of these researches have studied the relation between acquiring a language and native-like issue (see: Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam (2009), Munoz (2008), Singleton (2005)) in that they studied the relation between age and SLA and then the relation between native-like and SLA.However, some others have focused on the grammatical errors which the language learner makes (see: Gabrys-Barker (2008), Erdogan (2005), Zainal (1990)) in that they have searched upon the errors which a learner makes in his academic activities such as spelling, sentence structure, word formation and word semantics.Since this paper handles the morphosyntactic errors for second language learner hereinafter definitions for the basic terms concerning the research topic: Languageis but a set of...

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... tend to omit the plural suffix at the end of the word as Turkish does not put it in adjectival phrases indicating numbers” (ibid: 265). Finally he emphasized on that importance of the students errors in word order of the sentence which make the sentence comprehensible for the readers. Meanwhile, for him, pluralization, tenses and use of articles are less important. Maroset al. (2007) studied the interference effect on rural Malay secondary school students’ grammatical errors in their English essays writing. Their data were 120 students from sixschools in three Malaysian states. They followed Norrish (1992) theory in Error Analysis in their data analysis. They found that students who have studied English for sixyears did not master English grammar yet. Their findings showed that there are three main and frequent errors which students make: 1) the use of copula verb (be), 2) the use of articles and 3) subject-verb agreement. 3. Methodology 3.1. Theoretical Framework (Chomsky’s 1995) To find out answers for the research questions, we are going to apply in our framework the Minimalist Program (MP). The MP is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside Generative Grammar and done by Noam...

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...the relation between native-like and SLA.However, some others have focused on the grammatical errors which the language learner makes (see: Gabrys-Barker (2008), Erdogan (2005), Zainal (1990)) in that they have searched upon the errors which a learner makes in his academic activities such as spelling, sentence structure, word formation and word semantics.Since this paper handles the morphosyntactic errors for second language learner hereinafter definitions for the basic terms concerning the research topic: Languageis but a set of sentences formed in logical syntactic structure or combination (Chomsky, 1957). Furthermore, Finch (2000) argued that languages like English deal with word order, however some other languages do from the words per se. Meanwhile, Chomsky’s (1965) Universal Grammar (UG)stated that all languages share common basic features. However, Borsley (1999) discusses that problems of syntax are due to the fact that languages are not ‘clearcut objectives’. The linguistic definition of morphologyis “the mental system involved in word formation or the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed”Aronoff & Fudeman (2011: 2). Moreover, th...

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...troduction 1.1. Background of the Study For the last 50 years and onwards, linguists and scholars have conducted many researches in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) (Gabrys-Barker, 2008). Many of these researches have studied the relation between acquiring a language and native-like issue (see: Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam (2009), Munoz (2008), Singleton (2005)) in that they studied the relation between age and SLA and then the relation between native-like and SLA.However, some others have focused on the grammatical errors which the language learner makes (see: Gabrys-Barker (2008), Erdogan (2005), Zainal (1990)) in that they have searched upon the errors which a learner makes in his academic activities such as spelling, sentence structure, word formation and word semantics.Since this paper handles the morphosyntactic errors for second language learner hereinafter definitions for the basic terms concerning the research topic: Languageis but a set of sentences formed in logical syntactic structure or combination (Chomsky, 1957). Furthermore, Finch (2000) argued that languages like English deal with word order, however some other languages do from the words per se. Meanwhile, Chomsky’s (...

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...demic activities such as spelling, sentence structure, word formation and word semantics.Since this paper handles the morphosyntactic errors for second language learner hereinafter definitions for the basic terms concerning the research topic: Languageis but a set of sentences formed in logical syntactic structure or combination (Chomsky, 1957). Furthermore, Finch (2000) argued that languages like English deal with word order, however some other languages do from the words per se. Meanwhile, Chomsky’s (1965) Universal Grammar (UG)stated that all languages share common basic features. However, Borsley (1999) discusses that problems of syntax are due to the fact that languages are not ‘clearcut objectives’. The linguistic definition of morphologyis “the mental system involved in word formation or the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed”Aronoff & Fudeman (2011: 2). Moreover, they believe that morphologyshould not be only a secondary data source in theories for analyzing other language elements but it has to be handled in its own as a subject of study. Syntax “is a term used for the study of rules governing the way words and combined to form...

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...Background of the Study For the last 50 years and onwards, linguists and scholars have conducted many researches in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) (Gabrys-Barker, 2008). Many of these researches have studied the relation between acquiring a language and native-like issue (see: Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam (2009), Munoz (2008), Singleton (2005)) in that they studied the relation between age and SLA and then the relation between native-like and SLA.However, some others have focused on the grammatical errors which the language learner makes (see: Gabrys-Barker (2008), Erdogan (2005), Zainal (1990)) in that they have searched upon the errors which a learner makes in his academic activities such as spelling, sentence structure, word formation and word semantics.Since this paper handles the morphosyntactic errors for second language learner hereinafter definitions for the basic terms concerning the research topic: Languageis but a set of sentences formed in logical syntactic structure or combination (Chomsky, 1957). Furthermore, Finch (2000) argued that languages like English deal with word order, however some other languages do from the words per se. Meanwhile, Chomsky’s (1965) Universal...

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... findings showed that there are three main and frequent errors which students make: 1) the use of copula verb (be), 2) the use of articles and 3) subject-verb agreement. 3. Methodology 3.1. Theoretical Framework (Chomsky’s 1995) To find out answers for the research questions, we are going to apply in our framework the Minimalist Program (MP). The MP is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside Generative Grammar and done by Noam Chomsky and that Radford and Adger shed light on it in their books: (Radford, 2009 &Adger, 2002). If we can sum up, the Minimalist Program, according to Zwart (1998) is “a collection of four articles, ‘The Theory of Principles and Parameters’ (written with Howard Lasnik, 13-127), ‘Some notes on Economy of Derivation and representation’ (129-166), ‘A Minimalist Program for linguistic theory’ (167-217), and ‘Categories and transformations’ (219-394)”. Moreover, the MP, as Lotfi (1999) argued, “ it assumes that the language faculty consists of a cognitive system (a computational system and a lexicon) responsible for storing information, and performance systems (the “external” systems A-P and C-P interacting with the cognitive system at two interface levels o...