Teixeira, Joana2018-02-132018-02-132016PURE: 2338674PURE UUID: 76bf1840-61a0-48a0-b14d-dbfccb759960ORCID: /0000-0002-1562-8584/work/78866887http://hdl.handle.net/10362/30448UID/LIN/03213/2013 PD/BD/52263/2013With a view to filling in a gap in SLA research, the present study investigates the acquisition of referential and expletive subjects and of the relative order of the subject and the verb in narrow and sentence focus contexts by L1-EP L2-English speakers and L1-French L2-English speakers.2338704engnull subjectsyntaxL1-EPL2-EnglishL1-FrenchSecond Language AcquisitionFrom a Romance null subject grammar to a non-null subject grammarconference objectThe syntax of subjects in advanced and near-native English