This paper concerns the acquisition of Motion events in Czech by a group of 10 Italian advanced students. Its overall aim is to discuss how one research area within cognitive-functional linguistics – that of cognitive typology (Talmy, 1985, 2000) – can be fruitful for the investigation of how adult language learners come to establish form-meaning mappings in the acquisition of L2 motion constructions. After having presented the theoretical background to the inquiry, in particular Talmy’s classification between verb-framed and satellite –frames languages, the paper shows the results of the elicitation of the well-known Frog story, illustrating the most common errors made by Italian students while describing a motion event in Czech. In the final part of the paper, the interpretation of the students errors leads to grounds for a reflection about the expression of telicity in the two languages.
Strategie di lessicalizzazione degli eventi di moto in ceco e in italiano
PERISSUTTI, Anna Maria
2013-01-01
Abstract
This paper concerns the acquisition of Motion events in Czech by a group of 10 Italian advanced students. Its overall aim is to discuss how one research area within cognitive-functional linguistics – that of cognitive typology (Talmy, 1985, 2000) – can be fruitful for the investigation of how adult language learners come to establish form-meaning mappings in the acquisition of L2 motion constructions. After having presented the theoretical background to the inquiry, in particular Talmy’s classification between verb-framed and satellite –frames languages, the paper shows the results of the elicitation of the well-known Frog story, illustrating the most common errors made by Italian students while describing a motion event in Czech. In the final part of the paper, the interpretation of the students errors leads to grounds for a reflection about the expression of telicity in the two languages.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
