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講座簡介：
Relative clause (RC) is a language structure that appears in the English language curriculum in second and foreign language contexts across the globe. For all the prominence of such a language structure in the curriculum, Cantonese-English learners in Hong Kong appear to possess substantial difficulty in their development of English RCs.
Following up Gisborne (2000)’s study on relative clauses in Hong Kong English, the present corpus-based study of relative clauses in written Hong Kong English possesses both developmental and sociolinguistic dimensions. On one hand, it aims at investigating to what extent three hypotheses explicating second language development of English relative clauses, videlicet the Keenan and Comrie (1977)’s Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy, Kuno (1974)’s Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis, and Hamilton (1994)’s Subject-Object Hierarchy Hypothesis, are supported by data of written Hong Kong English respectively. On the other hand, it is intended to examine quantitative and qualitative differences between relative clauses in written Hong Kong English as well as those in written British English.
Primary language data of relative clauses were collected from written components of the International Corpus of English – Hong Kong (ICE-HK) and the International Corpus of English – Great Britain (ICE-GB). Frequencies of occurrence and syntactic structures of distinct types of relative clauses were computed and analysed respectively.
詳情如下：
日期：4月6日(星期三)
時間：上午10:00-11:00
講者：吳智匯理事
對象：現職英文老師 / 準教師 / 研究生
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