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OVERPASSIVIZATION ERRORS BY SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS

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Author	Ju, Min Kyong
Copyright Year	2000
Description	This study investigates whether conceptualizable agents in the discourse play a role in English L2 overpassivization errors (nontargetlike passivization of unaccusative verbs, a subclass of intransitives). It hypothesizes that learners are more likely to make overpassivization errors in externally caused events (in which an agent or cause may form part of the speaker's mental representation) than in internally caused events (in which the cause or causer of the event is not clear). Advanced Chinese learners of English were asked to choose the more grammatical form (active or passive) in target sentences with unaccusative verbs. Each target sentence was embedded in two different contexts expressing external and internal causation. A significant difference in error rates was found between the two different contexts: Learners accepted passivized unaccusative verbs more frequently when an agent or cause was available than when it was not. This finding is taken as an indication that learners transitivize unaccusative verbs before they passivize them and that the degree of transitivization varies depending on the presence of conceptualizable agents in the discourse. Thus this paper argues against a purely syntactic analysis of interlanguage errors such as overpassivization and in favor of an approach that takes cognitive factors into account.
Related Links	https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/11941579EBB9E7D4192DA5E217D526A4/S0272263100001042a.pdf/div-class-title-overpassivization-errors-by-second-language-learners-div.pdf
ISSN	02722631
e-ISSN	14701545
DOI	10.1017/s0272263100001042
Journal	Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	22
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2000-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Studies in Second Language Acquisition Passivized Unaccusative Verbs
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Linguistics and Language

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