英文摘要 |
Chinese resultatives which include the DE structure and resultative verb compounds (RVC) contain a functional category FP, and the subject, object, activity predicate and result predicate in these constructions form a variety of semantic relations. The present paper, through a comprehension test, studies acquisition of semantic structures of Chinese resultatives by native English speakers and Japanese speakers and finds that there is discrepancy between acquisition of syntactic structure and acquisition of semantic structure. It is suggested that lexicon, intra- and inter-language similarities, explicitness of the head of FP and L1 transfer may be factors that constrain acquisition of semantic structures. |