In Construction Grammar, highly frequent syntactic configurations are assumed to be stored as symbolic units in the mental lexicon alongside words. Considering the example of gerund and infinitival complement constructions in English (She tried rocking the baby vs. She tried to rock the baby), this study combines corpus-linguistic and experimental evidence to investigate the question whether these patterns are also stored as constructions by German foreign language learners of English. In a corpus analysis based on 3,343 instances of the two constructions from the British component of the International Corpus of English, a distinctive collexeme analysis was computed to identify the verbs that distinguish best between the two constructions; these verbs were used as experimental stimuli in a sentence completion experiment and a sentence acceptability rating experiment. Two kinds of short-distance priming effects were investigated in the completion data: we checked how often subjects produced an ing-/to-/’other’-construction after having rated an ing- or to-construction (rating-to-production priming), and how often they produced an ing-/to-/’other’-construction when they had produced and ing- or to-construction in the directly preceding completion (production-to-production priming). Furthermore, we considered the proportion of to-completions before a completion in the questionnaire as a measure of a within-subject accumulative priming effect. We found no rating-to-production priming effects in the expected direction, but a weak effect in the opposite direction; short-distance production-to-production priming effects from ing to ing and from ‘other’ and to to to, and, on the whole at least, a suggestive accumulative production-to-production priming effect for both constructions. In the rating task, we found that subjects rate sentences better when the sentential structure is compatible with the main verb’s collexemic distinctiveness.
2020. Frequency effects in the L2 acquisition of the catenative verb construction – evidence from experimental and corpus data
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Crosthwaite, Peter
2023. Corpus Linguistics: Mixed‐Methods Research. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ► pp. 1 ff.
2021. Corpus Linguistics: Quantitative Methods. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Gries, Stefan Th. & Allison S. Adelman
2014. Subject Realization in Japanese Conversation by Native and Non-native Speakers: Exemplifying a New Paradigm for Learner Corpus Research. In Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014 [Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, 2], ► pp. 35 ff.
Gries, Stefan Th. & Nick C. Ellis
2015. Statistical Measures for Usage‐Based Linguistics. Language Learning 65:S1 ► pp. 228 ff.
GRIES, STEFAN TH. & GERRIT JAN KOOTSTRA
2017. Structural priming within and across languages: a corpus-based perspective. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20:2 ► pp. 235 ff.
Gries, Stefan Th. & Stefanie Wulff
2021. Examining individual variation in learner production data: A few programmatic pointers for corpus-based analyses using the example of adverbial clause ordering. Applied Psycholinguistics 42:2 ► pp. 279 ff.
Hall, Christopher J., Jack Joyce & Chris Robson
2017. Investigating the lexico-grammatical resources of a non-native user of English: The case of can and could in email requests
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Hoffmann, Thomas
2021. The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes,
2017. Linguistic Models, Acquisition Theories, and Learner Corpora: Morphological Productivity in SLA Research Exemplified by Complex Verbs in German. Language Learning 67:S1 ► pp. 96 ff.
Martinez‐Garcia, Maria Teresa & Stefanie Wulff
2012. Not wrong, yet not quite right: Spanish ESL students' use of gerundial and infinitival complementation. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 22:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
MATUSEVYCH, YEVGEN, AFRA ALISHAHI & AD BACKUS
2017. The impact of first and second language exposure on learning second language constructions. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20:1 ► pp. 128 ff.
2022. Emergent L2 Grammars in and for Social Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue. The Modern Language Journal 106:S1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Rosemeyer, Malte & Scott A. Schwenter
2019. Entrenchment and persistence in language change: the Spanish past subjunctive. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 15:1 ► pp. 167 ff.
Rossi, Eleonora, Kyra Krass & Gerrit Jan Kootstra
2019. Psycholinguistic Methods in Multilingual Research. In The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism, ► pp. 75 ff.
Römer, Ute
2023. Usage‐Based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Vis‐à‐Vis Data‐Driven Learning. TESOL Quarterly
Römer, Ute, Stephen C. Skalicky & Nick C. Ellis
2018. Verb-argument constructions in advanced L2 English learner production: Insights from corpora and verbal fluency tasks. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 0:0
Schneider, Gerold
2023. Detecting and Analysing Learner Difficulties Using a Learner Corpus Without Error Tagging. In Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching, ► pp. 229 ff.
2020. Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Korean learners of English. Applied Psycholinguistics 41:5 ► pp. 1223 ff.
Suethanapornkul, Sakol & Sarut Supasiraprapa
2023. Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition► pp. 1 ff.
Ungerer, Tobias & Stefan Hartmann
2023. Constructionist Approaches,
Verhagen, Véronique & Maria Mos
2016. Stability of familiarity judgments: Individual variation and the invariant bigger picture. Cognitive Linguistics 27:3 ► pp. 307 ff.
Verhagen, Véronique, Maria Mos, Joost Schilperoord & Ad Backus
2020. Variation is information: Analyses of variation across items, participants, time, and methods in metalinguistic judgment data. Linguistics 58:1 ► pp. 37 ff.
Vujić, Jelena
2018. Constructionism in language pedagogy: Usage-based approach to foreign/second language learning. Inovacije u nastavi 31:4 ► pp. 117 ff.
Wulff, Stefanie
2013.
Input matters. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3 ► pp. 362 ff.
Wulff, Stefanie
2017. What learner corpus research can contribute to multilingualism research. International Journal of Bilingualism 21:6 ► pp. 734 ff.
2017. Second Language Users’ Restriction of Linguistic Generalization Errors: The Case of English Un– Prefixation Development. Language Learning 67:3 ► pp. 569 ff.
2016. References. Language Learning 66:S1 ► pp. 313 ff.
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