空间运动事件的二语表达和汉语复合动词的习得

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Abstract This study investigates how English-Chinese second language learners of different proficiencies (i.e. advance, intermediate, low), as compared to native speakers of Chinese, acquire the Resultative Verb Compound (RVC) in a specific context of motion event expressions. The investigation focuses on three aspects: a. if, and how, they acquire the internal structure of RVCs (i.e. components and their sequencing), b. if, and how, they acquire the typical way semantic ingredients are projected onto grammatical categories (i.e. lexicalization patterns), c. if, and how, they acquire the syntactic construction where an RVC typically occurs (i.e. simplex clause). Our results show that the advanced L2 learners behaved like native speakers of Chinese. They generally got rid of the feature of “verb polarization” in their source language and produced RVCs at a high frequency. Meanwhile, they were able to encode motion components in standard grammatical devices and in typical syntactic constructions, thus presenting a relatively tight pattern of information distribution, as required in the target language. In stark contrast, second language learners of low and intermediate proficiencies failed to mater the lexicalization pattern of motion expressions in Chinese despite that they seemed to have acquired the internal structure of RVCs. Generally speaking, our results reveal that second language learning concerns more about the switch and reintegration of relevant concepts than about the mastery of grammatical knowledge. Varied factors exert an important impact on the progress and outcome of second language learning such as the typological distance between the source and the target language, the degree of complexity of grammatical concepts (lexicon vs. syntax) and language-specific features.

Key words： second language learning motion event typology lexicalization pattern Chinese Resultative Verb Compound (RVC) verb polarization

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JI Ying-lin. The Acquisition of Chinese RVCs in Motion Event Expressions[J]. , 2022, 39(1): 49-59.

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