Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Reflexive Anaphora Resolution in Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Spanish Learners of English

Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Reflexive Anaphora Resolution in Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Spanish Learners of English

This paper analyses the choice of sloppy and strict interpretations of reflexive anaphora in verb phrase ellipsis from the perspective of Relevance Theory (RT) (Sperber and Wilson 1986, 1995, 2002, 2008; Wilson and Sperber 2002, 2004). Forty-four Spanish learners of English and 29 native speakers o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Evelyn Gandón-Chapela, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza 2019-12-01
Series:Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
Subjects:
VP-ellipsis
L2 English
reflexive anaphora
strict reading
sloppy reading
Relevance Theory
Online Access:https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/6340

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