| Autor: |
Heine, Antje, Schirrmeister, Lars, Anderson, Matthew O. |
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German as a Foreign Language; 2019, Issue 2, p1-19, 19p |
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Engineering faculty at German universities often observe an absence of German for Specific Purposes (GSP) proficiency among international students, particularly regarding passives and impersonal expressions. This problem partially results from inadequate grammatical description in academic instruction materials, which usually explain these phenomena as transformations of underlying structures using valency-based projectionist grammar models. In these materials, for example, the passive is usually represented as deagentivation and valency-decrease. They present the production of passive clauses as a rather "mechanical" transformation of transitive verbs into different synonymous passive configurations, eliding differences in the latter's distributional properties and communicative functions. Contrary to these findings, studies like Stefanowitsch (2009) and Heine (2016) indicate that native speakers/writers prefer (i) certain passive constructions for specific text types and communicative purposes, and (ii) certain verbs in specific passive constructions. Our investigation draws on GSP research in the field of engineering, using the "Gingko" corpus. It aims to provide a detailed, empirical description of the use of passive/neighboring forms to modify future teaching materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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