The Author: Jingyu Zhang was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in 1992-1993. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2003. He was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at University of Southern California in 2006-2007. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an China.

• Contents: Second Language Acquisition – Psych Predicates (Verbs and Adjectives) – Subject Experiencer – Object Experiencer – UG – UTAH – Lexical Causatives – Perephrastic Causatives – Zero CAUS – Animacy – Target Language Input – Typology of Causativization – Semantic Salience Hierarchy – Double Morphology Hypothesis – Overt Morphology Rule – Semantic Salience Hierarchy Model – Learning Strategy – Implications to TESOL.

The Author: Jingyu Zhang was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in 1992-1993. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2003. He was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at University of Southern California in 2006-2007. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an China.

• Contents: Second Language Acquisition – Psych Predicates (Verbs and Adjectives) – Subject Experiencer – Object Experiencer – UG – UTAH – Lexical Causatives – Perephrastic Causatives – Zero CAUS – Animacy – Target Language Input – Typology of Causativization – Semantic Salience Hierarchy – Double Morphology Hypothesis – Overt Morphology Rule – Semantic Salience Hierarchy Model – Learning Strategy – Implications to TESOL.

The Author: Jingyu Zhang was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in 1992-1993. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2003. He was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at University of Southern California in 2006-2007. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an China.

• Contents: Second Language Acquisition – Psych Predicates (Verbs and Adjectives) – Subject Experiencer – Object Experiencer – UG – UTAH – Lexical Causatives – Perephrastic Causatives – Zero CAUS – Animacy – Target Language Input – Typology of Causativization – Semantic Salience Hierarchy – Double Morphology Hypothesis – Overt Morphology Rule – Semantic Salience Hierarchy Model – Learning Strategy – Implications to TESOL.