LOCATIVE AND DIRECTIONAL EXPRESSIONS IN BASILANG SPEECH

This paper forms part of a project designed to describe the pidginization found in basilang speech, the earliest stage in second-language acquisition, from the perspectives of word order, reference to time, and reference to space. The research reported here deals with locative and directional expressions in the English interlanguage of three Spanish speakers, two Japanese speakers, and one Chinese speaker. The results indicate that the oriental subjects tend to form these structures without prepositions much more frequently than Spanish speaking subjects. In addition, transfer and simplification seem to account for the structure of spatial expressions in basilang interlanguage.