Xu, Haixia & You, Seok­Hoon . 2013. Acquisition of ‘V-V’ resultative construction by Korean learners of Chinese language. Language Information . Volume 17. 117-148. I n Chinese, “predicate + resultative” construction (RC, hereafter) are quite productive. Yannong Wang (1987) and Yuehua Liu (2005) pointed out that it is difficult for second language learners to acquire Chinese RC’s. Recent researches on L2 Chinese acquisition (Hui Che 2006, Xueyin Liang 2008, etc), also pointed out similar difficulties for leaners to acquire Chinese RC’s. Until recently, most studies on the acquisition of Chinese RC’s, especially that of Korean learners’, had focused on error analysis and categorization of error types rather than on acquisition of RC’s by Korean-speaking learners of Chinese. Chinese RC’s are not simple to acquire due to its complicated semantico-syntactic properties. The learners are expected to understand the interface between syntax and semantics to acquire them.

This paper has conducted an empirical study to investigate the influences of native language of Korean-speaking learners of Chinese in their acquisition of Chinese RC’s. This study includes an acceptability judgment test of Chinese ‘V-V’ RC consisting of a monosyllabic verbal predicate and a monosyllabic resultative verb.

 

Key words: resultative verb, resultative construction, second language acquisition, Chinese acquisition, syntax and semantics interface