| Acknowledgements Abstract Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Need for investigating L2 acquisition of English raising verbs 1.2 Definition of raising predicates 1.3 Difficulties encountered in the acquisition of raising predicates by language learners 1.4. Key research questions 1.5 Contents of the remaining chapters Chapter 2 Conceptualizing the Acquisition of English Predicates——Theoretical Foundations 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Theoretical foundation for the analysis of raising predicates 2.2.1 Justification for adopting a generative approach in the present study 2.2.2 Principles on the semantics-syntax interface of the verb Chapter 3 The Linguistic Features of English Raising Predicates 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The semantics of English raising predicates: Delimitation of the concept 3.2.1 seem/appear 3.2.2 happen and appear 3.2.3 turn out 3.3 The syntactic structures of raising v... |
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