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Applied Linguistics 2000 21(1):78-105; doi:10.1093/applin/21.1.78
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Persistence of the implicit influence of NL: the case of the pseudo-passive

Z Han

TESOL/Applied Linguistics, Department of Arts and Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University, Box 66, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027-6696, USA E-mail: zhh2@columbia.edu

This paper re-examines the case of the 'pseudo-passive', an interlanguage structure considered to be typical of L1-Chinese learners of L2 English (Schachter and Rutherford 1979; Rutherford 1983; Yip and Matthews 1995). Earlier approaches to the analysis of the structure, i.e. typological (Schachter and Rutherford 1979; Rutherford 1983) and syntactic (Yip 1995; Yip and Matthews 1995), are reviewed and an alternative approach, i.e. discourse-syntactic, is proposed to bridge a methodological gap left from the earlier studies. this approach is subsequently adopted for analysing the structure found in a two-year longitudinal database consisting of the written data produced independently by two adult speakers of advanced L1-Chinese-L2 English interlanguage. The study shows that the pseudo-passive is driven by a topic-comment function and structure in the L1, which confirms the understanding reached by the earlier research. More importantly, however, it provides evidence that the 'pseudo-passive' is reincarnated into a target-like passive as a result of increased syntacticization, thereby showing the persistence of the L1 influence.


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