"What Is Happened" May Not Be What Appears To Be Happening: A Corpus Study of "Passive" Unaccusatives in L2 English.

Oshita, Hiroyuki

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Publication Date: 2000

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"What Is Happened" May Not Be What Appears To Be Happening: A Corpus Study of "Passive" Unaccusatives in L2 English.

Oshita, Hiroyuki

Second Language Research, v16 n4 p293-324 Oct 2000

Second language researchers have been studying passive unaccusative errors such as "What was happened?," but have not reached a consensus about the ultimate cause of this unique interlanguage structure. This article reviews five major accounts proposed in he literature. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage, Language Research, Second Language Learning

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Language: English

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