Unaccusativity in second language Japanese and English

This thesis investigates L2 acquisition of intransitive verb constructions in Japanese and English. Within the Generative framework, the Unaccusative Hypothesis has been proposed, which divides intransitive verbs into two syntactically distinct classes: unergatives and unaccusatives (Burzio 1986). T...

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Main Author: Hirakawa, Makiko.
Other Authors: White, Lydia (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2000
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