Acquisition of Causative Ba-construction in Southeast Asian Students : An Investigation Based on the Written Language Corpus

Based on the written corpus of Southeast Asian foreign students collected in Jinan University, this paper gives a comprehensive description of the interlanguage system on causative Ba-construction. It is found that foreign students' mastery of causative Ba-construction is still largely influenced by other types of Ba-construction, such as disposition or treatment semantic. In the interlanguage system, causative Ba-construction can be divided into seven kinds of sentence pattern. According to the using frequency of sentence patterns changing in each stage, "subject + ba + object +V+ result complement" is deemed the dominant sentence pattern. There are many kinds of improper using in written corpus, such as omission, addition, substitution, misordering, mismatching and hybridity among which the improper using of substitution is the most. Among the acquisition process to causative Ba-construction, there is a certain order, and its accuracy, complexity and richness increase with the learning stage. Finally, the article puts forward the corresponding teaching suggestions.

Keywords

Causative Ba-construction, Acquisition, Interlanguage system

source

International Journal of Chinese Language Education; Jun 2023; Issue No. 13; p.163 - 184

Language

Chinese