Introduction of Unaccusative Verbs in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

 

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Avtor: Yang, Ming
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2019
Opis:Verbal transitivity always supposes a great difficulty for Chinese students of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). Verbs with unstable valency behavior cause confusion. According to traditional grammar, there are transitive, intransitive, or impersonal verbs. The Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter, 1971) classifies intransitive verbs as unaccusative or unergative. In this article, we propose that word order of the subject and predicate, and the absolute passive participle structure and middle voice in Spanish, can be understood more easily with the introduction of the concept of unaccusative verbs analyzed with the lexical-syntactic interface, thus offering a new perspective for the teaching of SFL to Chinese students.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institucija:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Jezik:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/12150
Online dostop:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/12150
Ključna beseda:argument structure
lexicon-syntax interface
unaccusative verbs
verb alternations
estructura argumental
interfaz léxico-sintaxis
verbos inacusativos
alternancias verbales