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Direct linkKondo, Takako – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
An important problem for a language learner is identifying how properties of argument structure are realized morphosyntactically in the particular language they are learning. Speakers of some L1s overgeneralize the morphosyntactic reflexes of the movement of Theme objects in English to unaccusative intransitive verbs, using passive morphology in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Syntax
