Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition
Our study focuses on morpho-syntactic complexity, trying to identify the specific subordinated modalities of organizing and packaging information in a narration. This purpose will be achieved by combining the morpho-syntactic analysis with the type of contents that su...
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| description | Our study focuses on morpho-syntactic complexity, trying to identify the specific subordinated modalities of organizing and packaging information in a narration. This purpose will be achieved by combining the morpho-syntactic analysis with the type of contents that subordinate clauses convey with respect to the informational flux of textual structure (foreground vs. background alternation). A functionalist and enunciative framework is adopted. The following questions will be addressed: (1) which types of morpho-syntactic structures – main or subordinated, finite or non finite – are exploited to convey the subordinated contents selected? (2) do the informants tend to hierarchize the expressed contents? (3) which types of semantic and/or logical components (temporality, causality, etc.) are selected to be narrated and highlighted through subordination? We shall demonstrate that only the interaction of several factors – core morphological facts, interactional and discourse habits – can exhaustively explain the textual perspectives observed in our L1 and L2 data, with interesting consequences for second language acquisition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc49e9477143457a86dd0eadca4d4c592022-12-21T20:12:13ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232021-10-012810.4000/discours.11434Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language AcquisitionPatrizia GiulianoSimona AnastasioOur study focuses on morpho-syntactic complexity, trying to identify the specific subordinated modalities of organizing and packaging information in a narration. This purpose will be achieved by combining the morpho-syntactic analysis with the type of contents that subordinate clauses convey with respect to the informational flux of textual structure (foreground vs. background alternation). A functionalist and enunciative framework is adopted. The following questions will be addressed: (1) which types of morpho-syntactic structures – main or subordinated, finite or non finite – are exploited to convey the subordinated contents selected? (2) do the informants tend to hierarchize the expressed contents? (3) which types of semantic and/or logical components (temporality, causality, etc.) are selected to be narrated and highlighted through subordination? We shall demonstrate that only the interaction of several factors – core morphological facts, interactional and discourse habits – can exhaustively explain the textual perspectives observed in our L1 and L2 data, with interesting consequences for second language acquisition.http://journals.openedition.org/discours/11434subordinationnarrationsecond language acquisitionEnglish L2 |
| spellingShingle | Patrizia Giuliano Simona Anastasio Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition Discours subordination narration second language acquisition English L2 |
| title | Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition |
| title_full | Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition |
| title_fullStr | Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition |
| title_short | Subordination in Italian and English: Implications for Second Language Acquisition |
| title_sort | subordination in italian and english implications for second language acquisition |
| topic | subordination narration second language acquisition English L2 |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/discours/11434 |
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