Tatiana Iakovleva

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tatiana Iakovleva is involved.

Article

Iakovleva, Tatiana 2012 Typological constraints in foreign language acquisition: The expression of voluntary motion by upper intermediate and advanced Russian learners of English Typological perspectives on second language acquisition: ‘Thinking for Speaking’ in L2: Perspectives typologiques sur l’acquisition d’une langue seconde: ‘Penser pour Parler’ en L2, Benazzo, Sandra, Monique Flecken and Efstathia Soroli (eds.), pp. 231–260 | Article

This study examines the impact of typological constraints on second language acquisition. It explores the hypothesis of a conceptual transfer from first to foreign language (L1 to L2). Based on Talmy’s (2000) distinction between Verb- and Satellite-framed languages, corpus-based analyses compare… read more