TY - JOUR AU - Guijarro Fuentes, Pedro AU - Amenos Pons, José AU - Ahern, Aoife Kathleen PY - 2023 DO - 10.1075/sic.00085.gui SN - 1571-0718 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91948 T2 - Spanish in Context AB - ABSTRACT: This paper reports the developmental stages of the acquisition of «estar» in stage-level predicate constructions in the L2 Spanish grammar of native speakers of French and Portuguese. Copular verbs exist in the L1s of both learner groups;... LA - eng M2 - 282 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Copular verbs KW - «Ser» KW - «Estar» KW - Spanish KW - French KW - Portuguese KW - Second language acquisition TI - Acquisition of «estar» + adjective in L2 Spanish by L1 French and Portuguese speakers TY - journal article VL - 20 ER -