The second language acquisition of the morphosynchratic realisation of causative and inchoative events in English and Arabic

Starting from the work of Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995, 2005), this thesis gives an account of the lexical and morphological properties that are relevant to the syntactic expression of causative and inchoative events in Arabic and English, and reports a bidirectional study of how second language...

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Main Author: Alharbi, Mohammad Melfi
Published: University of Essex 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654723