Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | Laconic phrase | The song came from a phrase (''gimme somme of that'') that Enrique uses with his girlfriend Anna Kournikova | Sensual Phrase | die hard (phrase) |
- i.e. the initial state of the L2 is the final state of the first - Young-Scholten and Vainikka have argued that only lexical categories (e.g. the noun phrase) are drawn from the L1, and that functional categories (e.g. the inflectional phrase that represents tense) do not; rather, the learner 'grows' new ones because they start their L2 acquisition with only a 'minimal' syntactic tree.