Spanish verb support constructions from a learner perspective

Few studies exist on verb-support constructions (VSC) from a didactic perspective; however, the scant evidence available suggests that learners tend to employ these structures less frequently than native speakers. Didactic materials and dictionaries provide only very superficial treatment of these c...

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Autor: Buckingham, Louisa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/34186
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/34186
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Verb-noun collocations
Verb-support constructions
Corpus analysis
Colocaciones verbonominales
Construcciones con verbo soporte
Análisis de corpus
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Sumario:Few studies exist on verb-support constructions (VSC) from a didactic perspective; however, the scant evidence available suggests that learners tend to employ these structures less frequently than native speakers. Didactic materials and dictionaries provide only very superficial treatment of these collocations. This corpus-based study of VSC in Spanish identifies a group of typical items for a specific genre (social sciences), and then describes certain morphosyntactic and semantic challenges that the extracted corpus examples present to English and German-speaking learners. Using these same concordances, we then develop model didactic exercises to focus on form, meaning and use.