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Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide, Cadierno, Teresa and Hijazo-Gascon, Alberto 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-9173
(2016)
The role of force dynamics and intentionality in the reconstruction of L2 verb meanings: A Danish-Spanish bidirectional study.
Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1).
pp. 136-160.
ISSN 1877-976X
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Abstract
This paper examines the role of force dynamics and intentionality in the description of placement events by two groups of native speakers of typologically and genetically different languages, Danish and Spanish, and by two groups of intermediate adult learners, Danish learners of L2 Spanish and Spanish learners of L2 Danish. The results of the study showed that (a) force dynamics and intentionality are important semantic components in both languages, but their distribution and relative focus differed crosslinguistically, and (b) the two learner groups had difficulties in reconstructing the meanings of the L2 verbs involving these two semantic components. Learning difficulties were observed when moving from a less to a more complex L2 system, when moving in the opposite direction, i.e., from a more to a less complex L2 system and when moving to an L2 system that is as complex as the learners native one.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | placement events,force dynamics,danish,spanish,l2 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2016 09:09 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2023 00:47 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57641 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/rcl.14.1.06iba |
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