A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF "PASSIVE" UNACCUSATIVE ENGLISH VERBS IN FLA  

跨年龄段英语非宾格动词被动化研究(英文)

作　　者：俞建耀[1] 

机构地区：[1]浙江工商大学外国语学院

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2005年第6期56-65,37+128,共12页中国应用语言学（英文）

摘　　要：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.本研究基于目前对非宾格动词的研究和词汇语义结构等理论,从实证角度切入,对中国不同年龄段英语学习者在不同外部动因提示语境中,使用非宾格性强弱不同的动词时出现的被动泛化规律做出假设并进行实验研究,力图对英语非宾格动词被动泛化做出合理的理论解释,从而对非宾格动词的习得做出预测。其研究意义在于对英语教学的影响——有效缩短学习者语义认知水平和非宾格动词论旨角色之间的差距,使中介语汇与英语本族语语汇相一致。

关 键 词：UNACCUSATIVITY COGNITIVE LSR external causation causativization 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]