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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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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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Distributional effects and individual differences in L2 morphology learning [PDF]
, 2016 Second language (L2) learning outcomes may depend on the structure of the input and learners’ cognitive abilities. This study tested whether less predictable input might facilitate learning and generalization of L2 morphology while evaluating ...
Brooks, Patricia J. +2 more
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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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Dėl asmeninių įvardžių dviskaitos kilmininko kai kurių formų kilmės
Baltistica, 2011 ON THE ORIGIN OF SOME GENITIVE DUAL FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNSSummaryThe article deals with the origin of the genitive dual forms mùma and jùma, which are personal pronouns used in the southern West Aukštaitian subdialect as well as in East Prussian ...
Albertas Rosinas
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Case and event structure [PDF]
, 2013 I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable only on verbal ...
Svenonius, Peter
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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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The Dative Alternation in English [PDF]
, 1993 In English, there is a dative lexical alternation between a prepositional dative (PD) and a double object dative (DOD): I gnoe a book to lohn alternates with I gaae lohn a book. However, the dative alternation in English is more complex than this appears.
Wolfe-Quintero, Kate
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Perspectives from comparisons of the Hebrew l-suffix with the Shona h-suffix features
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The ethical dative or dativus ethicus is a feature used with certain verbs in Biblical Hebrew, which, however, has continued to pose difficulties to grammarians as to its syntactic and semantic references.
Godwin Mushayabasa
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