Proposed is a project (or principles) of new version for the textbook theoretical Chinese grammar based on Predicative Concept Language and continuous to 2005-2006 edition. The book would be more systematic will consider in detail non-equivalence language levels Russian; Topic-prominent typology considered depth, as well variety regional variants Chinese; impossibility assimilating same inflect...

this paper investigates learner-initiated responses to english language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

What factors shape the synchronic typology of sound patterns and how should they be detected? To the extent that the synchronic typology of sound patterns follows from the results of language change, it is commonly, if not implicitly, assumed that analytic and channel biases are two major factors involved in shaping phonological typology (Zuraw 2007; Wilson 2006; Moreton 2008, 2010). Analytic b...

2 OECD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKING PAPERS This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on regional development issues prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal authors are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language English or French with a summary in the other if available. The opinions e...

The study examines how prototypes and typological relationships between the L1, L2 target language (TL) interact with TL proficiency in learning Italian as additional language. Low-proficiency high-proficiency undergraduate learners of (N = 25) Swedish L1 performed an oral retelling story test, aiming to elicit aspectual contrast perfective-imperfective. Their tense selection was analyzed consi...

As proposed by Ameka and Levinson (this issue) locative verb systems can be classified into four types according to the number of verbs distinguished. This article addresses the lower extreme of this typology: languages which o¤er no choice of verb in the basic locative function (BLF). These languages have either a single locative verb, or do not use verbs at all in the basic locative construct...

Talmy‘s (1985) crosslinguistic typology of lexicalization patterns of motion events have been extensively used in second language acquisition (SLA) research as a means to examine how second language (L2) learners map form, meaning, and function. These studies have yielded some conflicting results regarding the learnability of L2 lexicalization patterns  arguably the oversimplification over and...

Collocations play a significant role in second language acquisition. In order to be able to offer efficient support to learners, an NLP-based CALL environment for learning collocations should be based on a representative collocation error annotated learner corpus. However, so far, no theoretically-motivated collocation error tag set is available. Existing learner corpora tag collocation errors ...

In this paper, the theoretical consideration which constitutes the basics of the project NEWAP (A New Approach by simultaneously learning of languages) is presented. The aim of the project is to facilitate to learn Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish at the same time by comparative approach and to strengthen a dialog among different countries and cultures through a new method. It is claimed that in ...