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T1 How Would You Name This?: An Empirical Study on English and Spanish N-N Compounds Production
A1 Perrino Antúnez, Marta
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 comparative grammar, N-N compounds, production, interpretation, English, Spanish.
K1 gramática comparada, compuestos nominales, producción, interpretación, inglés, español.
AB English and Spanish are languages that differ in terms of grammatical aspects. One ofthese aspects bears upon the formation of N-N compounds, a grammatical structure veryproductive in English but not in Spanish. The present dissertation aims to provide anempirical approach to the study of both the production and the interpretation of N-Ncompounds that will take into account some of the syntactic and semantic features ofthese structures. In the experiment, L1 Spanish L2 English speakers with a differentcompetence in English have to name various pictures using an N-N compound. Theanalysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of the target N-N compounds will shedlight on how these features determine the production of N-N compounds in English and/ortheir interpretation in Spanish. Our results show that the difference in English proficiency,as well as some semantic properties, will condition the use of N-N compounds or otherstructures.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33432
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33432
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 29-abr-2024