L’acquisizione dei verbi di movimento in apprendenti cecofoni, slovaccofoni e anglofoni
| Autoři | |
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| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Recenzovaný odborný článek |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Italiano LinguaDue |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/promoitals/article/view/31991 |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/31991 |
| Klíčová slova | L2 Italian; Motion events; Motion verbs; Perfective auxiliaries |
| Popis | This article contributes to the flourishing research on the acquisition of the encoding of motion events by Italian L2 learners by presenting and examining selected results from a comparative study on the modalities of the acquisition of motion events in Italian by undergraduate Italian L2 students with different L1, namely Czech and Slovak vis-a-vis American English. The study is based on data collected in undergraduate courses of Italian language at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and the University of Texas at Austin (USA), following the descriptive-narrative task developed around the visual-only text Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969), a well-established elicitation technique in acquisitional research. The article focuses on the results pertaining to one of the three main objectives of the study – the patterns of selection and distribution of the perfective auxiliaries (essere ‘to be’ and avere ‘to have’) with Italian motion verbs, a topic that remains under-investigated. The analysis of our results suggests that overall, the students of the Masaryk University (MU) have reached a more advanced stage in the acquisition of the selection and distribution of the two auxiliaries, as attested by a lower attestation of morphosyntactic errors, such as lack of or incorrect agreement in both the auxiliaries and the past participle forms. The different levels of acquisition observed for the two groups of students is (tentatively) attributed to the different structure of the Italian courses offered at the two universities, particularly in terms of duration and , regarding UT Austin, the methodology currently adopted for introducing, explaining, and practicing the grammar structures under consideration (passato prossimo/compound verb forms and auxiliary selection). |