LINGUIST List 26.1998

Tue Apr 14 2015

Books: Overgeneralized Lexical Causatives in Adult English and Spanish L2 Acquisition: Camasca

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Date: 14-Apr-2015
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Overgeneralized Lexical Causatives in Adult English and Spanish L2 Acquisition: Camasca
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Title: Overgeneralized Lexical Causatives in Adult English and Spanish
L2 Acquisition
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 34
Published: 2015
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1J0RCVx

Author: Mónica Estela Cabrera Camasca
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862886210 Pages: 98 Price: Europe EURO 52.80
Abstract:

The present study provides evidence in favor of the view that different L1 grammatical properties are transferred at different stages of acquisition. The study focuses on the acquisition of lexical causatives by L1-English/L2-Spanish and L1-Spanish/L2-English adult learners. English and Spanish lexical causatives have common constructional properties. The causative construction can be instantiated by verbs encoding change of state or location such as alternating unaccusatives, but not by unergatives. In both languages, there is a subset of non-alternating unaccusatives that, although encode change, cannot appear in lexical causatives. They have been analyzed as lexically marked for the non-realization of their causative form. English and Spanish are different in that in the former, but not in the latter, manner-of-motion verbs can modify the causative construction in the context of a goal prepositional phrase. Learners tended to overgeneralize causatives especially at the beginner level, but mostly with predicates encoding change. At the advanced level, overgeneralization was restricted to verb classes allowed in lexical causatives in the L1. Learners make selective use of their L1 knowledge: constructional properties are transferred early on, and lexical specific properties are transferred at the post-intermediate level. Detailed individual analyses per subject and per verb are presented and discussed.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                            Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                            Spanish (spa)

Written In: English (eng)

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