A Corpus-based Comparison of the Use of English Resultative Constructions between Chinese English Learners and Native English Speakers

• 발행기관: 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회)
• 저자명: Longying Zhou Kwang Hee Hong Kyu-Hong Hwang
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제33권 3호, 43~60쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.09.30

영문 초록

The present study looks into the use of English resultative construction through corpora, including COCA, BNC, and WECCL2.0. Its focus is on the similarities and differences in the use of English resultative construction between Chinese English Learners (CEL) and Native English Speakers (NES). Parameters for evaluation have been set as follows: the animacy of the agent, the aspectuality of the event-argument, and the semantic constraints on the resultative complement. The results show that the agent exerting the force on the patient is mostly animate. In contrast to NES, CEL more frequently use the passive voice with an implied agent. The verbs used by CEL in English resultative construction are sparse. In addition, CEL tend to use fixed phrases and simple constructions and they have acquired basic knowledge about the aspectuality of verbs and boundness of the PP/AP complement of English resultative constructions. (142 words)

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THEORETICAL BACKROUNDS

III. METHOD

IV. RESULTS

V. DISCUSSION

키워드

aspectuality BNC Chinese English learners COCA Cognitive Grammar corpus English resultative construction WECCL2.0