Multiword Verb Use among ESL students with Verb-Framed First Language

Authors

  • Ahmed Kadhum Fahad

Keywords:

Multi-verb word, Corpus, Verb framed, Lexical, Functional Structure

Abstract

English has many multiword verbs and collocations. A linguistic division between verb-framed languages and satellite-framed languages is characterized by the presence or absence of particles used in multiword verbs. A verb-framed language (e.g., Arabic, Korean,) encodes semantic information about the path of motion within the main verb, whereas a satellite-framed language (e.g., English, German) encodes directional information in the verb-related particle. The purpose of this study is to use a corpus linguistics tool to examine the relationship among lexical and functional structure in multiword verbs used by ESL learners. The central hypothesis is that there is a robust effect of L1 typological preferences on written expressions in L2.

 

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Published

2021-04-05

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2018)

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