The development of the interlanguage corpus of Chinese speakers learning Japanese in China and the investigation of their verb learning processes

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This project accomplished the following two things. First, it constructed the interlanguage corpus consisting of conversational and compositional data collected from 94 Chinese speakers majoring in Japanese at Hunan University in China. Second, it investigated the verb learning processes of Chinese learners of Japanese focusing on simple verbs, compound verbs, suru-verbs of Chinese origin, tense and aspect, expressions with numeral quantifiers, etc. Results revealed that Chinese learners of Japanese choose intransitives, transitives, or passives on the basis of the extent of human agency, and acquire unergative suru-verbs of Chinese origin earlier than their unaccusative counterparts, with their tense-aspect learning process exhibiting strong universal tendencies as they are enhanced by first language transfer.