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- Title
Development of the progressive construction in Chinese EFL learners' written production: From prototypes to marginal members.
- Authors
Wu, Tianqi; Wang, Min
- Abstract
It is worth noting, however, that generic verbs were getting closely tied to the progressive construction from ST3 to ST6 as evidenced by the increasing verb-progressive contingencies. In particular, there are frequency biases in the available input with certain verbs appearing more frequently in the progressive than others while the strength of verb-progressive association is Zipfian, that is, the most distinctive verbs for the progressive coincide with the frequent verbs. It turns out that lower-level learners' use of progressives is confined to activity verbs which have typical progressive interpretations while higher-level learners are more ready to spread progressives to nonprototypical verb types such as achievements and accomplishments. The third group of verbs experienced a constant increase in verb-progressive contingency from ST3 to ST6 and the last group contained verbs with a decreasing verb-progressive contingency. 4.3 Verb-progressive association After examining the changes in frequency and verb type distribution across datasets, we move on to look at what verbs were distinctively associated with the progressive construction in different learner corpora (RQ3) and how the distinctive verbs change across proficiency levels in terms of semantic prototypicality and generality (RQ4).
- Subjects
SECOND language acquisition; CHINESE as a second language; LINGUISTIC typology; ENGLISH grammar; LANGUAGE research; FRAMES (Linguistics)
- Publication
Corpus Linguistics & Linguistic Theory, 2022, Vol 18, Issue 2, p307
- ISSN
1613-7027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/cllt-2020-0029