Asymmetric syntactic and thematic reconfigurations in English speakers' L2 Chinese resultative compound constructions

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-55

  Yuan, Boping ^a   Zhao, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese resultative; second language; syntactic and thematic structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953104013     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006910371023     Document Type: Article

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