Roles of Lexical Aspect and Narrative Structure in Early Tense-Aspect System of L2 English: A New Perspective from Cognitive Linguistics

dc.contributor.authorYu-da Laien_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-10T01:39:23Z
dc.date.available2016-05-10T01:39:23Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-??
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a unified cognitive linguistics (CL) account grounded on the iconicity principle (i.e., iconic markedness and iconic proximity) for motivating the L2 asymmetric associations of thegrammatical aspects, respectively, with verbs of different aspectual classes and the narrative structure (i.e., foreground-background distinction). The study, consisting of 44 written narratives by Taiwanese EFL college students at elementary and intermediate levels, suggests that first, the interlanguage aspect system develops from the unmarked usages parameterized with the degree of conceptual fitness between the (un)boundedness of the situations projected by the lexical verbs and the (inner/outer) perspectivization embedded in the grammatical aspects (principle of iconic markedness), and second, learners’ sensitivity to the grounding influence positively correlates with their proficiency, and the connection strength of the grounding influence to the aspectual use is overall weaker than the consideration of conceptual fitness (principle of iconic proximity). Based on the above, a CL-based constructive approach is suggested to provide learners with step-by-step input (mass/count noun → verb-aspect combination → grounding distinction) that is comprehensible enough to motivate the aspectual usages in relation to the (un)boundedness and perspectivization under the intricacy of lexical aspectual class and narrative structure.en_US
dc.identifierA757EB59-8986-996F-8107-D69677CE7029
dc.identifier.urihttp://rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/handle/20.500.12235/78817
dc.language英文
dc.publisher英語學系zh_tw
dc.publisherDepartment of English, NTNUen_US
dc.relation38(2),65-103
dc.relation.ispartof英語教學zh_tw
dc.subject.othercognitive linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.otheraspectual classen_US
dc.subject.othernarrative structureen_US
dc.titleRoles of Lexical Aspect and Narrative Structure in Early Tense-Aspect System of L2 English: A New Perspective from Cognitive Linguisticszh-tw

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