15.3551, Qs: Perfective Morpheme; L2 Processing of Idioms

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Subject: 15.3551, Qs: Perfective Morpheme; L2 Processing of Idioms

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1)
Date: 20-Dec-2004
From: Marina Sherkina-Lieber < marina.cherkina at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Perfective Morpheme

2)
Date: 21-Dec-2004
From: Zuo Hongshan < zuohongshan at 21cn.com >
Subject: L2 Processing of Idioms


-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:16:42
From: Marina Sherkina-Lieber < marina.cherkina at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Perfective Morpheme


In a number of languages (e.g. Slavic group, Hungarian, Lithuanian, etc.),
there is a grammatical distinction between perfective and imperfective
aspect. However, these languages do not have a true perfective morpheme,
whose only function is to change aspect to perfective; instead, they have a
number of prefixes that make a verb perfective, and each prefix has
additional, other than perfective, meaning (Aktionsart or spatial).
The question is, does any language have a true perfective morpheme? If yes,
is it inflectional?

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology




-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:16:45
From: Zuo Hongshan < zuohongshan at 21cn.com >
Subject: L2 Processing of Idioms



Dear Sir or Madam,

This is Hongshan Zuo from China. Currently I'm in the first year of the
Ph.D. program, specializing in SLA. I'm interested in
L2 processing of idioms, but just suffer from a lack of references. Does
anybody have something to say?


zuohongshan
zuohongshan at 21cn.com
2004-12-16

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition






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