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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 +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 +2 more
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AmpersandThe 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 ...
Fabio Mollica
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Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
Nordic Journal of African StudiesThis study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction ...
Bebwa Isingoma, Peace Yikiru
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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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Ditransitive Constructions [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 Ditransitive constructions are syntactic constructions with three arguments, an agent (A), a theme (T), and a recipient (R), which express an event of possessive transfer (‘give,’ ‘lend,’ etc.) or an event of cognitive transfer (‘tell,’ ‘show,’ etc.). Their cross-linguistic study has revealed three major alignment types: indirective alignment (with the
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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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A manysi ditranzitív igék szintaxisa szemantikai megközelítésből [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2016 The syntax of the Mansi ditransitive verbs from the aspect of their semantics *** The paper investigates the ditransitive constructions and the ditransitive verbs of the Mansi language.
Sipőcz, Katalin
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On the distribution of scope ambiguities in Polish
Glossa, 2022 Polish, an SVO language with relatively free constituent order, has a scope extending mechanism of quantifier raising that shows remarkable similarities to quantifier raising in English.
Dagmara Grabska, Klaus Abels
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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 +1 more
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