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Why Is This Happened? Passive Morphology and Unaccusativity.
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Balcom, Patricia – Second Language Research, 1997
A study compared the use of passive morphology with unaccusative verbs by 38 adult Chinese learners of English as a Second Language with that of native English speakers. On a grammaticality judgment task and a controlled production (cloze) task, the Chinese subjects both used passive morphology and judged it as grammatically inappropriate with all…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, English, English (Second Language)