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Causative Errors with Unaccusative Verbs in L2 Spanish.
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Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 1999
Investigates whether intermediate Turkish-speaking and English-speaking learners of Spanish know which unaccusative verbs alternate in transitivity and which ones do not, and whether they find causative errors natural with intransitive verbs. Results confirm similar findings to those reported in English interlanguage and first-language acquisition…
Descriptors: English, Error Patterns, Grammar, Interlanguage
First-Language Constrained Variability in the Second-Language Acquisition of Argument-Structure-Changing Morphology with Causative Verbs.
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Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2001
Presents three related experiments on the acquisition of two classes of causative verbs: physical change of state verbs with agentive subjects and psychological change of state verbs with experiencer objects in English, Spanish, and Turkish as second languages by speakers whose native languages are English, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese.…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Japanese, Language Acquisition