An Experimental Study on Second Language Learners' Acquisition of Ditransitive Constructional Meaning
XU Wei-hu · Foreign Language and Literature · 2013
Construction Grammar holds that grammatical constructions have meanings independent of words and constructional meaning contributes to the meaning of sentences. The studies of native speakers have proved the existence of constructional meaning and its effect on sentence processing. Here we report our experimental study of the second language learners' acquisition of ditransitive constructional meaning. The results indicate that constructional meaning makes great contribution to the understanding of ditransitives,but the second language proficiency factor has no statistical significance.