Intensifying constructions in French-speaking L2 learners of Dutch or English

This study is part of a broader interdisciplinary research project on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in French-speaking Belgium (Hiligsmann et al. 2017). In this talk, we will present the different aspects of the project and then focus as a case study on the acquisition of intensifying constructions within this context. Intensification can be expressed cross-linguistically by several morphological and syntactic constructions (among others, Kirschbaum 2002; Hoeksema 2012; Zeschel 2012; Rainer 2015). The diversity of constructions and the language-specific preferences for partic... Mehr ...