Chapter 5. On the acquisition of event culmination
Chapter 5. On the acquisition of event culmination
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第五章 论事件高潮的获得
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2018
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A. Hout
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在学习日耳曼语和罗曼语的儿童中，有相当高的接受率将语完成体谓语作为对非终极事件的描述。是什么原因导致儿童比成人更容易接受对目的完成体句子的非终极解释？在这篇评论中，我讨论了学习者在三个语法维度的困难，有助于事件的顶点：“结果”的概念编码在动词的词汇语义，动词短语的Telicity，和时体形态的完善性。我的结论是，冗长性和完美性不会导致非高潮接受模式。相反，事件高潮的可学性挑战在于动词意义的习得。本文还从主体能动性的作用等几个新的角度进行了探讨。
There is quite a high rate of acceptance of telic-perfective predicates as descriptions of non-culminating events in children learning Germanic and Romance languages. What causes children, much more so than adults, to accept non-culminating interpretations of telic-perfective sentences? In this review, I discuss learners’ difficulties in each of three grammatical dimensions that contribute to event culmination: the notion of ‘result’ as encoded in the lexical semantics of verbs, telicity of verb phrases, and perfectivity of tense-aspect morphology. I conclude that telicity and perfectivity do not cause the non-culmination acceptance patterns. Instead, the learnability challenge for event culmination lies in the acquisition of verb meanings. I sketch several new angles for further research, including the role of agentivity of the subject.