Not wrong, yet not quite right: Spanish ESL students' use of gerundial and infinitival complementation

International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 225-244

  Martinez Garcia, Maria Teresa ^a   Wulff, Stefanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Distinctive collexeme analysis; Gerundial vs. infinitival complementation; Second language proficiency; Spanish ESL student writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863554036     PISSN: 08026106     EISSN: 14734192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2012.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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