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Syntactic functions of non-finite verb forms in a learner corpus of Czech students

Authors: Hornová Libuše

Year: 2015

Type of publication: ostatní - článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Communication across Genres and Discourses

Publisher name: Masarykova univerzita

Place: Brno

Page from-to: 45-58

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Syntactic functions of non-finite verb forms in a learner corpus of Czech students	The aim of this paper is to present some findings resulting from the analysis of a small learner corpus of spoken English. Major attention is paid to the frequency of non-finite verb forms in their varied syntactic functions. The results are compared with corpus findings presented in Biber et al (1999 ) and also assessed according to contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA), (Granger, 2009), which can help us estimate the possible influence of the learners´ native language (L1), Czech. The CIA analysis is based on the typological differences between the students’ L1 and L2 (Mathesius, 1975, Knittlová et al, 2010, Dušková et al, 1988, to name a few). The third aim is to suggest possible innovations in advanced language teaching/learning of the English language. By reducing the L1 transfer, the students´ performance could become closer to English native speakers´ norms.	learner corpus; spoken language grammar; syntactic functions of non-finite verb forms; L1 transfer; contrastive analysis; second language acquisition

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