What Transfers:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Sung shim Hong
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제87호, 163~183쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.02.01

영문 초록

The current research aims to show that a transitive predicate/verb in one language may not necessarily be transitive in another. An alternative argument structure, Alternative Argument Structure Hypothesis (AASH), is proposed and advocated in this paper in order to account for erroneous production patterns noted and observed in Kim (2001), Park (2013), and Hong (2015a, b). Korean L1ers learning English as an L2 insert illicit prepositions between an English transitive V such as ‘marry’,‘kiss’,‘answer’etc. and its complement, yielding fairly high inaccuracy. It is argued that the erroneous patterns may be attributed to the asymmetries in the lexical argument structures between the Korean Vs and its English counterparts. The Korean counterparts of these English Vs are of the Sino-Korean origin light verbs (Han and Rambow, 2000, Choi and Wechsler 2002, Bak 2011) accompany‘-hata’. Under this proposal, it is the argument structure rather than morphological case as Montrul (1997, 2000), Ahn (2013), and Brown and Iwasaki (2013) have argued for that transfers to the acquiring process of the transitivity of the English Vs by Korean L1ers. The ramification of this study is that L1 grammar of argument structure transfers to L2 acquisition more fully and noticeably than has been assumed in the literature.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Acquisition of Morphology or Argument Structure

3. Proposing an Alternative Argument Structure

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

L1 transfer argument structure production errors light verb construction Case mismatch