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Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic researchEdited by Doris Schönefeld
[Human Cognitive Processing 33] 2011
► pp. 293–316
Edited by Doris Schönefeld
[Human Cognitive Processing 33] 2011
► pp. 293–316
Converging evidence in the typology of motion events
A corpus-based approach to interlanguage
This chapter investigates the influence of motion event typology on second language acquisition. Recent research on motion events (e.g. Slobin 1996a/b, 2000, 2004) has shown that speakers of typologically different languages (verb-framed vs. satellite-framed, cf. Talmy 1985, 1991, 2000) differ in where they code manner and path of motion. English, for example, codes manner in the verb and path in adjuncts. Romance languages typically code path in the verb, while manner expression is optional. The corpus analysis focuses on the way Romance learners of English express motion events in their written L2 production. The analysis provides converging evidence with previous research in that learners are likely to transfer the verb-framed patterns from their L1s to their English interlanguage.
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Li, Peiwen, Søren W. Eskildsen & Teresa Cadierno
2014. Tracing an L2 Learner's Motion Constructions Over Time: A Usage‐based Classroom Investigation. The Modern Language Journal 98:2 ► pp. 612 ff. 
Li, Peiwen, Søren W. Eskildsen & Teresa Cadierno
2014. Tracing an L2 Learner's Motion Constructions Over Time: A Usage-based Classroom Investigation. The Modern Language Journal 98:2 ► pp. 612 ff.
Stocker, Ladina & Raphael Berthele
2020. The roles of language mode and dominance in French–German bilinguals’ motion event descriptions. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 23:3 ► pp. 519 ff.
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