The L2 acquisition of argument structure has attracted the attention of several researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition in the last decade. Previous studies on the L2 acquisition of English and Spanish causative structures have given somehow contradictory accounts as to the mechanisms at play. Some of these studies account for the phenomenon as a case of access to Universal Grammar with some verb classes and as transfer of L1 properties with others. Taking as a point of departure the analysis of different syntactic properties of English and Spanish causative structures, the...
The L2 acquisition of argument structure has attracted the attention of several researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition in the last de...