A quantitative analysis of the use of posture verbs by French-speaking learners of Dutch
This article presents a study of the use of the Dutch cardinal posture verbs staan (‘stand’), liggen (‘lie’) and zitten (‘sit’) by French-speaking learners of Dutch; the data is drawn from a corpus of semi-spontaneous oral picture descriptions. Due to the typological differences between French and Dutch in the spatial domain (see Talmy 2000; Lemmens & Slobin 2008), the use of posture verbs is a highly problematic subject for French-speaking learners of Dutch. As a result, their interlanguage is typically characterized by an overall underuse of posture verbs as well as a confusion of the di... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | CogniTextes (2012) |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
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Schlagwörter: | Dutch / interlanguage / posture verbs / second language acquisition / acquisition / bilingualism / Philology. Linguistics / P1-1091 |
Sprache: | Englisch Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26626251 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.4000/cognitextes.609 |