L2 Acquisition of English Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs by Chinese Learners
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This study explores the learnability problems involved in the acquisition of English intransitive verbs by Chinese L2 learners. Specifically, the study investigates whether L2 learners distinguish between the two sub-classes of English intransitive verbs: the unaccusative verb and the unergative verb. Moreover, the study tried to research whether the same learners could differentiate the alternating unaccusative verb and the non-alternating one. The experimental study lends a support for the claim that L2 learners are sensitive to the abstract properties of argument structure when they construct their L2 grammars.
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This study explores the learnability problems involved in the acquisition of English intransitive verbs by Chinese L2 learners. Specifically, the study investigates whether L2 learners distinguish between the two sub-classes of English intransitive verbs: the unaccusative verb and the unergative verb. Moreover, the study tried to research whether the same learners could differentiate the alternating unaccusative verb and the non-alternating one. The experimental study lends a support for the claim that L2 learners are sensitive to the abstract properties of argument structure when they construct their L2 grammars.
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