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Wang, Chyan-an Arthur – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation examines the resultatives in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Mandarin) and Taiwanese Southern Min (henceforth Taiwanese), a notoriously difficult construction that has drawn extensive attention in the literature. With a microparametric approach, I offer a syntactic analysis for two kinds of resultatives, phrasal resultatives and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Figurative Language, Phrase Structure
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Marsden, Emma; Chen, Hsin-Ying – Language Learning, 2011
This study aimed to isolate the effects of the two input activities in Processing Instruction: referential activities, which force learners to focus on a form and its meaning, and affective activities, which contain exemplars of the target form and require learners to process sentence meaning. One hundred and twenty 12-year-old Taiwanese learners…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Children, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar