THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL COMPARISON TO THE GERMAN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

The data we provide in the following paper are a result of a two-year-study (Grumpel, 2000) and several transversal studies (Martinez, 2005). The paper particularly focuses on the right periphery, object-verbstructure versus verb-object-structure, in the case of the acquisition of German (L3) by adult and adolescent Spanish native speakers (L1) on a background of English as a second language (L2). The study focused on the acquisition of the obligatory object movement [+] and verb movement [-/+] in the German Interlanguage (L3) of learners with Spanish (L1). We also supposed that lexical categories in complementizer could influence in acquisition in a positive way. As well we analysed the adverb in the first position of matrix and embedded clauses in the interlanguage of our learners.