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Direct linkHelms-Park, Rena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper presents a study that attributes verb serialization in the interlanguage of Vietnamese-speaking ESL learners to language transfer and, furthermore, puts forward the view that such transfer bears a resemblance to substrate influence in creoles with serial verb constructions (SVCs). In a task that elicited English causatives through…
Descriptors: Creoles, Verbs, Interlanguage, Linguistic Input
