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Personal and impersonal sentences in Lithuanian and Proto-Indo-European
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 The dative subject construction of the historical languages is the continuation of the Proto-Indo-European thematic present. It was largely replaced by the construction with a nominative subject that continued the athematic present as well as the aorist,
Frederik Kortlandt
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The derivation of dative alternations [PDF]
, 2010 This paper argues for an updated version of the classical derivational approach to Double Object Constructions and dative constructions across languages. We show that the arguments to postulate a non-derivational approach do not hold and that, in fact, such an approach runs into unsolvable problems. We argue that the structural alternation is triggered
Ormazabal Zamakona, Javier, Romero, Juan
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The Dative Markers and Their Developments in Hunan Sinitic Languages
LanguagesThis study is based on a sample of 30 Sinitic languages spoken in the Hunan Province. Its first objective is to explore the types of dative markers, comparing the form of the dative with allative, passive, benefactive, and differential object markers in ...
Xinyi Gao
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.We present CatTransVAE, a catalyst‐specialized chemical language model (CLM) built on a transformer variational autoencoder (VAE), developed through pretraining on general compounds followed by fine‐tuning on diverse catalyst databases. A template‐guided generation framework is introduced to enable controlled catalyst design under structural ...
Apakorn Kengkanna, Masahito Ohue
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Dative (first) complements in Basque
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 This article examines dative complements of unergative verbs in Basque, i.e., dative arguments of morphologically “transitive” verbs, which, unlike ditransitives, do not co-occur with a canonical object complement.
Beatriz Fernández, Jon Ortiz de Urbina
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The Emergence of Accusative Case in Copala Triqui
Linguistic Discovery, 2022 This paper argues that the noun ‘body’, the accusative particle, and dative preposition man are synchronically three different parts of speech in modern Copala Triqui.
George Aaron Broadwell
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A look at High Applicatives in Romanian: dative experiencers
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009 Romanian has both Low Applicative Phrases and High Applicative Phrases. At present, Romanian dative experiencers are High Applicatives with a dative phrase as specifier, and an (obligatory) dative clitic as head.
María Luisa Rivero
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A further argument for a syncretic analysis of DOM and dative in Spanish
Topics in Linguistics, 2020 This paper offers an argument to analyse the Spanish form /a/ as a syncretic case marker for accusative differential object marking (dom) and dative. The literature on free relative clauses has established that syncretism allows the repair of feature ...
Pérez Carlos Muñoz
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Reconsidering inalienable possession with definite determiners in French
Isogloss, 2022 In many Romance and Germanic languages, definite determiners can indicate possession for a subset of nouns that have often been called nouns of ‘inalienable’ possession. This paper addresses the question of why and how the definite determiner contributes
Johan Rooryck
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