Crosslinguistic influence on Chinese EFL learners’ acquisition of English finite and nonfinite distinctions
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DOI: 10.1080/2331186x.2020.1721642
Abstract: Abstract English and Chinese have typological differences in finiteness. English has morphological finite and nonfinite distinction, whereas Chinese has no morphological finiteness, and multiple verbs in a clause appear in the form of bare verbs… read more here.
Keywords: acquisition english; nonfinite distinctions; chinese efl; english finite ... See more keywords
Deponency in finite and nonfinite contexts
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DOI: 10.1353/lan.2018.0034
Abstract: Abstract:This article investigates the syntactic properties of deponents in finite and nonfinite contexts in several Indo-European languages (Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite, Modern Greek) and proposes a novel definition of deponency: deponents are morphologically… read more here.
Keywords: finite nonfinite; nonfinite contexts; deponency finite; mismatch ... See more keywords