Learning and unlearning object drop in anaphoric and non-anaphoric contexts in L2 English
Chinese allows object drop in contexts where there is an antecedent (anaphoric contexts), where English generally requires an overt object pronoun (e.g. Mary’s bike is broken. I am going to repair *(it) for her). In non-anaphoric contexts, however, English allows a null cognate object e as in Mary r...
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635018 |