This study closely replicates the analyses of the third research question in Römer and Berger (2019), which reported that the associations between verbs and verb argument constructions (VACs) used by German and Spanish learners of English move closer to a native usage norm as the learners’ proficiency increases. This study conducted the same correlation analyses from the original study but with a substantially expanded version of the learner corpus used therein. Additionally, we conducted zero-inflated negative binomial analyses to estimate the relationship between the frequencies of verb-VAC combinations in the British National Corpus (BNC) and in the learner subcorpora representing different proficiency levels. Our findings were consistent with the original study in showing significant positive correlations between frequencies of the verb-VAC combinations in the BNC and in the learner subcorpora but further revealed the potential effect of topic on the learners’ VAC usage. Implications for future studies are discussed.

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L2 英语学习者动词论证结构的发展：Römer 和 Berger (2019) 中研究问题 3 的精确复制

这项研究密切复制了 Römer 和 Berger (2019) 中第三个研究问题的分析，该研究报告称，德语和西班牙语英语学习者使用的动词和动词论证结构 (VAC) 之间的关联更接近母语使用规范，因为学习者的熟练程度提高。这项研究进行了与原始研究相同的相关性分析，但其中使用的学习者语料库的版本得到了大幅扩展。此外，我们还进行了零膨胀负二项式分析，以估计英国国家语料库 (BNC) 和代表不同熟练程度的学习者子语料库中动词-VAC 组合的频率之间的关系。我们的研究结果与原始研究一致，显示 BNC 和学习者子语料库中动词-VAC 组合的频率之间存在显着正相关，但进一步揭示了主题对学习者 VAC 使用的潜在影响。讨论了对未来研究的影响。