Crosslinguistic influence on Chinese EFL learners’ acquisition of English finite and nonfinite distinctions
English and Chinese have typological differences in finiteness. English has morphological finite and nonfinite distinction, whereas Chinese has no morphological finiteness, and multiple verbs in a clause appear in the form of bare verbs with optional aspectual morphemes, such as the perfective morph...
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Taylor & Francis Group
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Cogent Education |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1721642 |