Titre :

On the use of posture verbs by French-speaking learners of Dutch: a corpus-based study

Auteur(s) :

Lemmens, Maarten [Auteur correspondant]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Perrez, Julien [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

Cognitive Linguistics

Pagination :

315–347

Éditeur :

De Gruyter

Date de publication :

2010-06-01

ISSN :

0936-5907

Mot(s)-clé(s) :

posture verbs
Dutch
overgeneralisation.
second language acquisition
learner cor- pus
lexical
overgeneralisation

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

This article presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative corpus study of the use of the Dutch posture verbs staan (‘stand'), liggen (‘lie') and zitten (‘sit') by French-speaking learners of Dutch. In addition ...
Lire la suite >This article presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative corpus study of the use of the Dutch posture verbs staan (‘stand'), liggen (‘lie') and zitten (‘sit') by French-speaking learners of Dutch. In addition to providing a quantified insight into which uses of these verbs prove most problematic to the L2 learners, the study has also revealed three important tendencies. Firstly, in line with the typological di¤erences between French and Dutch (where these verbs behave like noun classifiers), our analysis confirms the French-driven tendency of the learners for underusing these verbs. Secondly, seemingly paradoxical to the previous point, is that these learners occasionally overuse these posture verbs in contexts where no such verb is allowed. Thirdly, our qualitative analysis of errors reveals that the learners operate on grammaticised semantic distinctions drawn from the target language. Even if the categories used by L2 speakers may not be the same as those exploited by native speakers, our analysis suggests that the L2 speakers are thus aware of the patterns in the input and exploit them in a fashion that may not di¤er all that much in kind from those in L1 acquisition.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Projet ANR :

Structure de l'énoncé en contexte : langage et cognition au cours de l'acquisition - perspective translinguistique

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL