Morphological creativity in a China English corpus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10879644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Petrovitz (0000-0003-1654-7230, Department of Languages and Literatures, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica NY 11439, USA, corresponding author), Herbert D Pierson (0000-0003-1419-3459, St. John's University), Herbert Pierson (Department of Languages and Literatures, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica NY 11439, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 59-68 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.2018.1463000 |
| OpenAlex | W2807683257 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
With increasing numbers of international students from China at American universities, China English has become a matter of great interest and concern for educators. Recent studies have delineated characteristics of its grammatical features and lexical usage, but its processes of word derivation have been neglected. This study is based upon the analysis of a corpus consisting of the entrance-examination essays of Chinese international students. It shows that these students, though producing words that seem to deviations from standard forms, are actually using productive morphological-derivation processes and relying on sophisticated concepts such as analogy and parallelism, tendencies which should be encouraged in second-language learners rather than simply corrected
Analogy · China · Creativity · Linguistics · Parallelism (grammar · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |