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Argument Marking in Ditransitive Alignment Types

Linguistic Discovery, 2005
This paper discusses the patterns of case-marking/adpositional marking and indexing of ditransitive clauses in the world's languages, i.e. clauses with an Agent, a Recipient and a Theme argument. It distinguishes three major alignment types, indirective,
Martin Haspelmath
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Ditransitive Construction in English, Hungarian, Turkish, and Indonesian Language

Loquen, 2021
: Every language shows a different way of expressing ditransitive construction. Thus, the present study aims to investigate and compare the important elements exhibit in the languages under discussion in constructing ditransitive sentences.
Hyunisa Rahmanadia
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The development of and factors influencing double object construction preference of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia, 2022
The paper investigates the double object constructions, viz. SVOi Od and SVOOprep clause patterns, of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive. The syntactic and semantic specificity of the two verbs in question may indicate a possible future extinction ...
Veronika Hlaváčková , Gabriela Brůhová   +1 more
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Ditransitive Constructions in Zaza Language

Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2021
Languages group verbs in different ways. Because of the ergative feature of Zazaki, it plays a big role whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
İlyas Arslan
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Ditransitive Constructions [PDF]

A Grammar of Nganasan, 2018
Note 1: Some languages allow a wider set of thematic relations for the G argument. Note 2: In the grammars of some languages, the ditransitive is called the “applicative” construction and the G argument of a ditransitive is the “applied” argument.
Y. N. Falk
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Mandarin Chinese ditransitive construction comprehension involves simulating transfer directions: evidence from saccadic tasks

Cognitive Linguistics
Language comprehension involves simulating event representations. However, previous research has primarily focused on discrete linguistic cues, paying little attention to how syntactic constructions influence experiential simulations. This study examines
Zhang Wanyu, Yang Qi, Zhang Yuxin, Zhang Hui   +3 more
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Ditransitive Constructions in Laz

Linguistic Discovery, 2011
This paper examines ditransitives in ...
René Lacroix
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Left inferior frontal activations depending on the canonicity determined by the argument structures of ditransitive sentences: an MEG study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
To elucidate the relationships between syntactic and semantic processes, one interesting question is how syntactic structures are constructed by the argument structure of a verb, where each argument corresponds to a semantic role of each noun phrase (NP).
Tomoo Inubushi, Kazuki Iijima, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniyoshi L Sakai   +3 more
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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg, Manizeh Khan, Jesse Snedeker   +2 more
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The ditransitive construction and the double accusative construction as allostructions: Corpus-based analysis and pedagogical applications

Ampersand
The study explores the challenges encountered by Italian-speaking students with the learning of the German ditransitive construction. While prior research has extensively covered theoretical aspects of this construction, limited attention has been paid ...
Sabine De Knop, Fabio Mollica
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