Causatives and Transitivity in L2 English  

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Montrul, Silvina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 51 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 51-106.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/51 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study investigates whether Spanish- and Turkish speaking learners of English discover the semantic and syntactic constraints on the causative linchoative alternation in the absence of overt morphological clues. Results of a Picture Judgment Task show that L2 learners do discover these properties, and that overall verbs appear to cluster in classes in their interlanguage grammars. However, the Turkish group, at a lower proficiency level than the Spanish one, accepted transitivity errors with unaccusative, unergative and non-alternating transitive verbs. Although some of the developmental trends observed could be attributed to Ll influence, lower-proficiency learners may start with a wider grammar, and therefore not differentiate lexico-syntactically among different verb classes. With higher proficiency, L2 learners eventually recover from overgeneralizations.

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