On the Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction in SLA
On the Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction in SLA
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SLA 中非宾格/非作格的区别
DOI：
10.11431/secondlanguage2002.3.0_99
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发表时间：
1997
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
平川 眞規子
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作者：
平川 眞規子
这本书是以作者的博士学位为基础的。2000年6月，向麦吉尔大学提交了博士论文。作为一个好的论文往往，它提出了一个简洁的介绍作者的研究的理论框架，相关文献的深思熟虑的审查，目标，程序和原始研究的结果和他们的分析，以及可能的方向，为相关主题的未来调查。这本书阐明了一套高标准，在其范围内的调查现象，精心设计的实验，并彻底分析所获得的数据。因此，我推荐给任何对动词句法特性的二语研究中的理论论证、实验数据收集和数据分析感兴趣的人。第一章介绍了主位层次、犹他州主位结构、句法表征层次（D结构和S结构）、名词短语移位和格（和格）标记等理论概念和假设。作者论证了普遍语法与非解释性假设的相关性，并阐明了为什么非解释性是研究普遍语法在二语习得中的作用的肥沃土壤。第二章讨论了意大利语和英语中的句法现象，作为不确定性假设的证据。第三章对日语的形态、句法和语义现象进行了理论分析，并得出结论，认为在日语中必须认识到深层和表层的不确定性。此外，作者认为，与普遍观察到的深层不确定性不同，表层不确定性在英语中是例外，而在日语中是规则。第二章和第三章中提出的一些语言现象后来被用作L2不可解释性的实验诊断。第四章回顾了相关的文献，并得出结论，到目前为止，深层不确定性在第二语言研究中受到的关注很少，表面不确定性必须从潜在的第一语言影响的角度来研究。这两个问题构成了作者在本书其余部分提出的实验研究的主要动机。第五章和第六章分别介绍了作者对日语使用者的第二语言英语（研究I和II）和英语使用者的第二语言日语（研究III和IV）的研究。前两项研究分别测试了一个实验组，而其他研究测试了两个。大多数实验包括对多个句型的语法性判断任务或对有或没有伴随图片的不确定性的多个诊断。研究I和II还包含了一个引出的生产任务。这些结果代表了二语学习者对目标语动词句法性质的大量内隐知识，其中大部分是首次通过实验和/或先前的语言现象获得的
This book is based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation submitted to McGill University in June 2000. As a good dissertation often does, it presents a succinct introduction to the theoretical framework of the author's research, a thoughtful review of the pertinent literature, the objectives, procedures and results of the original research and their analyses as well as possible directions for future investigation of related topics. The book exemplifies a set of high standards in its scope of investigated phenomena, careful design of experiments, and thorough analysis of obtained data. As such, I recommend it for anyone interested in theoretical argumentation, experimental data collection, and data analysis in L2 research on syntactic properties of verbs. Chapter 1 introduces theoretical concepts and hypotheses such as thematic hierarchy, UTAH, levels of syntactic representation (D-vs. S-structures), NP movement and Case (and case) marking. The author demonstrates their relevance to the unaccusative hypothesis and elucidates why unaccusativity is such a fertile ground to investigate the role of Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition. Chapter 2 discusses syntactic phenomena in Italian and English as evidence for the unaccusative hypothesis. Chapter 3 reviews theoretical analyses of morphological, syntactic, and semantic phenomena in Japanese and concludes that both deep and surface unaccusativity must be recognized in this language. Furthermore, the author argues that unlike universally observed deep unaccusativity, surface unaccusativity is an exception in English but a rule in Japanese. Some of the linguistic phenomena presented in Chapters 2 and 3 are later used as experimental diagnostics for L2 unaccusativity. Chapter 4 reviews the relevant literature and concludes that to date deep unaccusativity has received little attention in L2 research and that surface unaccusativity must be studied in terms of potential L1 influence. These two issues constitute the author's primary motivation for the experimental studies presented in the rest of the book. Chapters 5 and 6 respectively present the author's research on the L2 English of Japanese speakers (Studies I and II) and the L2 Japanese of English speakers (Studies III and IV). The first two studies tested one experimental group each whereas the other studies tested two. Most experiments consisted of a grammaticality judgment task on multiple sentence patterns or on multiple diagnostics for unaccusativity with or without accompanying pictures. Studies I and II also contained an elicited production task. The results represent a very large quantity of data on L2 learners' implicit knowledge about the syntactic properties of verbs in the target language, much of which was obtained for the first time through an experiment and/or on linguistic phenomena previously