Semantically marked English subjects: Potential and actual areas of difficulty from the point of view of Hungarian learners of English

Porta Linguarum

Volumn , Issue 12, 2009, Pages 55-74

  Kalocsai, Karolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Degree of difficulty; Learner error; Markedness; Non agentive subjects; Semantic roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 70649114602     PISSN: 16977467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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