中国英语学习者心理使役构式习得新探

A New Perspective on the Acquisition of Causative Emotion Construction by Chinese Learners of English

生命性、论元层级凸显性和语义句法信息的交互是影响二语心理使役构式习得之关键。本研究采用经验者论元辨认法,以中国英语学习者和英语母语者为研究对象,探讨以上因素在习得心理使役构式过程中的作用。结果显示,生命性和论元层级凸显性效应显著。跨语言语义句法信息的相似性在习得英语心理使役构式的过程中没有带来正迁移。

The interaction of the animacy hierarchy,prominence in the thematic hierarchy and lexical-syntactic clues is notoriously essential to the domain of causative emotion construction in SLA. This article reports the results of the EXPERIENCER identification tasks concerning causative psych verbs among the Chinese learners of English and native English speakers. The results show that both animacy and thematic properties are essential for the acquisition of causative emotion construction. The cross-linguistic lexical-syntactic similarities may give rise to more learning difficulties rather than lead to the positive transfer from L1.