Zoe Pei-sui Luk
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zoe Pei-sui Luk is involved.
Articles
2014 Investigating the transitive and intransitive constructions in English and Japanese: A quantitative study Studies in Language 38:4, pp. 752–791 | Article
Previous research has suggested that languages differ in terms of how much prominence is given to the agent. Namely, English prefers to give prominence to a human agent, whereas Japanese prefers to suppress the human agent and express events as if they happen spontaneously (e.g., Ikegami 1981). By… read more
2012 10. Motion events in Japanese and English: Does learning a second language change the way you view the world? Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 205–232 | Article
This study investigates the effect of a typologically different second language on learners’ attention to different aspects of a motion event. Results revealed that L2 learners are not significantly different from the monolinguals in their attention to manner or path. It is proposed that education… read more