TY - JOUR AU - Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland PY - 2015/05/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - L2 acquisition of temporality: Findings from a corpus based study of the grammatical encoding of past time JF - Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies JA - BeLLS VL - 6 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.15845/bells.v6i0.809 UR - https://bells.uib.no/index.php/bells/article/view/809 SP - AB - The article presents a study that investigates the role of verb semantics (the AspectHypothesis) and L1 influence in texts from a learner corpus (Norsk andrespråkskorpus, ASK)that were written by 73 Vietnamese and 88 Somali learners of Norwegian. The mainstructures addressed are the preterite and the present perfect. There are two key findings. First,the Aspect hypothesis is not corroborated because lexical-aspectual influence is not detected.Second, the learner’s L1 is found to affect the acquisition process. The detected L1 effectsagree with previous studies documenting that the learner’s L1 can affect the acquisition oftemporal morphology and, moreover, that the perfect category in many cases is involved.Although the lack of support for the Aspect Hypothesis can partially be explained in terms ofdata type, it is suggested that the findings point to the importance of testing the hypothesis onother types of data besides those usually exploited. ER -