摘要
As one of the verbs with the highest frequency of co-occurrence with Chinese ditransitive constructions, “SONG” can be used in various ditransitive constructions (Zhang 1999). In the second language acquisition process, it is also a verb that learners can acquire more quickly (Liu 2006; Wang 2017). Therefore, compared with other verbs, “SONG” is a suitable verb for understanding the influence of verb semantic preferences and the given-before-new principle on construction preference when exploring learners' use of ditransitive constructions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Japanese Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) learners and native Chinese speakers use the verb “SONG”, how constructions containing “SONG” interact with verb meanings, differences in the distribution of constructions influenced by information structure, and whether “SONG” behaves similarly to other ditransitive verbs. In this study, we combined the experimental data of Japanese CSL learners and Chinese native speakers with a survey of a native speaker corpus to investigate the construction distribution and information structure performance of the verb “SONG”. In general, Japanese CSL learners and Chinese native speakers differed in their preferences for constructions containing “SONG”, with Japanese learners preferring VgeiDO and geiNVN constructions over native speakers. While compared to other ditransitive verbs, “SONG” is used relatively high in VgeiDO construction. In addition, learners were more influenced by the given-before-new principle when using the verb “SONG” than the native speakers, with this phenomenon inferred to be related to Japanese word order.
貢獻的翻譯標題 | An exploration of the usage of “SONG” in ditransitive constructions by Japanese CSL learners |
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原文 | 繁體中文 |
頁(從 - 到) | 91-124 |
頁數 | 34 |
期刊 | Chinese as a Second Language Research |
卷 | 12 |
發行號 | 1 |
DOIs | |
出版狀態 | 已發佈 - 2023 5月 1 |
Keywords
- Japanese CSL learners
- constructional preference
- ditransitive construction
- given-before-new principle
- verb “SONG”
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 教育
- 語言與語言學
- 語言和語言學