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The acquisition of middles and unaccusatives by Cantonese ESL learners.

by Chan Mable. / Thesis submitted in 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter1 --- Second Language Acquisition Research: Background to the Present Study / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.2 --- Rationale for the Present Study / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Structures and Properties of Middles and Unaccusative Verbs in English / Chapter 1.2.1.1 --- Derivation of Middles / Chapter 1.2.1.2 --- Derivation of Unaccusative Verb Structures / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Common Properties Shared by Middles and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 1.2.3 --- SLA Studies on L2 Acquisition of Middles and Unaccusative Verb Structures / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Issues / Chapter Chapter2 --- Theoretical Issues / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 2.2 --- Why Is It Difficult to Acquire Middles and Unaccusative Verbs? / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Common Properties shared by Passives, Middles and Unaccusatives" / Chapter 2.2.2 --- "The Differences between Passives, Middles and Unaccusatives" / Chapter 2.3 --- A Comparison of the Middles and Unaccusative Verbs in L1 and L2 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The issue of L1 Transfer / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Middles in Cantonese / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Unaccusative Verbs in Cantonese / Chapter 2.4 --- Predictions of Difficulties posed by both structures / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Middles / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter Chapter3 --- Methodology and Results / Chapter 3.1 --- Experiment / Chapter 3.2 --- Subjects / Chapter 3.3 --- Procedures / Chapter 3.4 --- Rationale of the Tasks / Chapter 3.4.1 --- The Grammaticality Judgment Task / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Picture Description Task / Chapter 3.5 --- Scoring Method / Chapter 3.6 --- Results of the Picture Description Task / Chapter 3.7 --- Results of the Grammaticality Judgment Task / Chapter 3.8 --- Diagnostics of Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 3.9 --- Prompting Effect / Chapter Chapter4 --- Discussion and Conclusion / Chapter 4.1 --- Research Issues Revisited / Chapter 4.2 --- Acquisition Problem with the Middle Construction / Chapter 4.3 --- Acquisition Problem with Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Paired Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Unpaired Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.4 --- Do L2 Learners have Knowledge of Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs? / Chapter 4.5 --- Developmental Patterns of L2 Learners in Acquiring English Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.6 --- Is there L1 Transfer? / Chapter 4.7 --- How to Account for the Difficulties Posed by Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Acquisition of Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Acquisition of the Middle Constructions / Chapter 4.8 --- Incompleteness' and 'Divergence' in Second Language Acquisition / Chapter 4.9 --- Conclusion / References / Appendix I / Appendix II

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322363
Date January 1998
ContributorsChan, Mable., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of English.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, 126, [32] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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