Linguistic Models, Acquisition Theories, and Learner Corpora: Morphological Productivity in SLA Research Exemplified by Complex Verbs in German. (13th April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lüdeling, Anke; Hirschmann, Hagen; Shadrova, Anna
• Other Names: Ellis Nick C. guestEditor.; Rebuschat Patrick guestEditor.; Meurers Detmar guestEditor.; McEnery Tony guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Language learning. Volume 67(2017)Supplement 1
• Page Start: 96
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2017-04-13
• Subjects: morphological productivity -- complex verbs -- learner corpora -- annotations; Language and languages -- Periodicals; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Linguistics; 407
• DOI: 10.1111/lang.12231
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0023-8333

Abstract

Abstract : The present study analyzes morphological productivity for complex verbs in second language acquisition by analyzing a corpus of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). It shows that advanced learners of GFL use prefix and particle verbs relatively frequently and productively but less so than native speakers do and discusses these findings in the light of different linguistic models and acquisition theories. It argues that corpus data must be evaluated against good models and that it is necessary to make the categorization decisions available as annotations.