抄録
Considerable numbers of studies have treated the issue of the acquisition of anaphora relations in second language (L2) acquisition. Most of the studies have tackled the issue in terms of Chomskyan approach to syntactic analysis of language. It should be noted, however, that such studies have been carried out without referring to semantic/functional properties of language. This article takes a standpoint that the semantic/functional analysis, as well as the syntactic analysis, is required to give a successful account of the acquisition of anaphora relations. It is indicated, through learner's behavior observed in some experiments, that anaphora options are controlled not only by syntactic constraints such as Principle A・B・C but also by semantic/functional conditions such as theme/rheme distinction and strong/weak causality. This article also addresses itself to how the learner's syntactic and semantic/functional knowledge can be located in a L2 acquisition model proposed in the past, by which it is stressed that an adequate explanation of anaphora acquisition will not be possible without due consideration of an interaction between the syntactic and semantic/functional knowledge.
