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Peer reviewedMontrul, 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
