Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the interpretations of English dative alternations by Korean learners, especially focusing on how Korean learners of English understand semantic and morphological constraints related to dative alternations. Sixty Korean learners of English participated in the experiment where they performed a grammaticality judgment task using Magnitude Estimation (ME) with English sentences representing different semantic and morphological conditions. The results demonstrated that Korean learners of English considered Prepositional Dative Constructions (PDCs) more grammatical than Double Object Constructions (DOCs) in overall sentence types and their understanding of different semantic and morphological constraints on dative alternations seems to be incomplete. The results also showed that the learners’ proficiency in English played an important role in understanding English dative alternations. Detailed discussions and pedagogical implications are presented.
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