基于同一语料库——中国学习者英语语料库(CLEC)的中初级学习者语料,对其预测二语习得者句法成熟度的效度进行了实证研究。结果发现非限定性动词当中,不定式使用的增加有一定的句法成熟度预测作用,但非限定性动词作为一个整体,不适宜用作中初级习者句法成熟度测量指标。
This paper reports the result of an empirical study of the validity of non-finite verbs as an indicator for SLA learners' syntactic maturity. The study was conducted on the basis of the intermediate and primary corpora in Chinese Learner English Corpus( CLEC) and shows that the increase in using infinitives in non-finite verbs functions as some indicator of syntactic maturity,but non-finite verbs,as holistic whole,are indispositive indicators of intermediate and primary learners' syntactic maturity.