Chapter published in:
Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language educationEdited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 102] 2021
► pp. 75–96
Chapter 4L2 development of -ing clauses
A longitudinal study of Norwegian learners
Hildegunn Dirdal | University of Oslo
Although -ing clauses are frequent in English, their acquisition has not received much attention, and there is a lack of longitudinal studies and detailed explorations of cross-linguistic influence. This longitudinal case study of five young Norwegian students reveals a developmental sequence for the syntactic roles of -ing clauses: complements of aspectual verbs > complements of other verbs and prepositions > bare adjuncts and postmodifiers of nouns > subjects. The sequence may arise from a combination of frequencies in the input and grammatical selection. Syntactic restrictions on Norwegian present participle clauses are not mirrored in the acquisition of -ing clauses, indicating that the students do not make an interlingual identification. Cross-linguistic influence is evident mainly in late acquisition and infrequent use of -ing clauses.
Keywords: -ing clauses, developmental sequence, cross-linguistic influence, second language acquisition
Article outline
- Introduction
- -ing clauses
- Second language acquisition and use of -ing clauses
- English -ing clauses and Norwegian present participle clauses compared
- Research questions
- Material and method
- Findings
- Developmental stages
- Individual differences
- Cross-linguistic influence
- Conclusion
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Published online: 22 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.102.04dir
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.102.04dir
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