This article will deal with Resultative Construction syntactically.First of all,the Unaccusative Hypothesis will be introduced,and the ideas of different scholars(mainly Levin and Rappaport) towards the question--whet...This article will deal with Resultative Construction syntactically.First of all,the Unaccusative Hypothesis will be introduced,and the ideas of different scholars(mainly Levin and Rappaport) towards the question--whether the resultative construction can serve as diagnostic test to tell unergative verbs and unaccusative verbs apart--will be presented.The second focus of the article is about the differences that tell resultative constructions apart from depicitive construction and secondary predication construction.展开更多
This study investigates whether suggestion of external causation in contexts plays a role in English L2 overpassivization errors on unaccusative verbs. Based on lexical semantic theories and considering the effect of ...This study investigates whether suggestion of external causation in contexts plays a role in English L2 overpassivization errors on unaccusative verbs. Based on lexical semantic theories and considering the effect of inferencing, it is hypothesized that; 1) Such errors are sensitive to verb unaccusativity strength which is presupposed in the study; 2) The degree of overpassivization in the context with strong suggestion of external causation differs significantly from that in contexts with weak suggestion of external causation; 3) As learners become more proficient in L2, the more semantic knowledge they possess, the less they are affected by a cognitive factor such as inferencing. This thesis thus contributes to theorizing the overpassivization issue by providing empirical evidence in favor of a Causativization account.展开更多
文摘This article will deal with Resultative Construction syntactically.First of all,the Unaccusative Hypothesis will be introduced,and the ideas of different scholars(mainly Levin and Rappaport) towards the question--whether the resultative construction can serve as diagnostic test to tell unergative verbs and unaccusative verbs apart--will be presented.The second focus of the article is about the differences that tell resultative constructions apart from depicitive construction and secondary predication construction.
文摘This study investigates whether suggestion of external causation in contexts plays a role in English L2 overpassivization errors on unaccusative verbs. Based on lexical semantic theories and considering the effect of inferencing, it is hypothesized that; 1) Such errors are sensitive to verb unaccusativity strength which is presupposed in the study; 2) The degree of overpassivization in the context with strong suggestion of external causation differs significantly from that in contexts with weak suggestion of external causation; 3) As learners become more proficient in L2, the more semantic knowledge they possess, the less they are affected by a cognitive factor such as inferencing. This thesis thus contributes to theorizing the overpassivization issue by providing empirical evidence in favor of a Causativization account.
