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Publication details [#57816]

Hohenstein, Jill and Yinglin Ji. 2013. The syntactic packaging of caused motion components in a second language: English learners of Chinese. Lingua 140 : 100–116.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

information structure | interlanguage | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | movement

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores how English learners of Chinese as a second language, of diverging proficiency planes, achieve possibly more progressive linguistic abilities in the syntactic packaging (strategies) of caused motion information.