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Ditransitive Alignment in Yakima Sahaptin

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
The grammatical coding of monotransitive and ditransitive clauses in Sahaptin (Plateau Penutian) demonstrates sensitivity to a range of factors, including animacy, person, topicality and number.
Joana Jansen
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I. Ditransitive constructions: A typological overview [PDF]

, 2010
This paper gives an overview of morphosyntactic properties and lexical classes of ditransitive constructions in the world's languages.
Malchukov, Andrej, Haspelmath, Martin, Comrie, Bernard   +2 more
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Word orders with ditransitive verbs

Acta Academica, 2001
From text: The word order of any sentence with a ditransitive verb will of necessity differ materially from word orders where the V is transitive or intransitive, due to the fact that the ditransitive verb has a twofold object.
Lamprecht, Adriaan
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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 Alignment and Referential Hierarchies in Araki

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
Since Bossong (1985), referential hierarchies have proven useful in accounting for patterns of differential object marking (DOM) in mono‑transitive clauses.
Alexandre François
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A COGNITIVE STUDY ON THE DIRECTION OF TRANSFER IN DITRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS ACROSS FOUR LANGUAGES [PDF]

Studii de gramatică contrastivă
Ditransitive constructions, a linguistic phenomenon universally observed, express the concept of transfer. This study investigates the direction of transfer in ditransitive constructions across Chinese, English, German, and Japanese, aiming to identify
Yawen Zhong
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Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract We report the results of two acceptability judgment experiments on English materials, which were designed in order to help disentangle predictions of syntactic theories with transformations from nontransformational theories. The materials in these experiments were motivated from examples from Pickering & Barry (1991), who provided intuitive ...
da Cunha Y, Gibson E.
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Parallel Architecture: From Problems and Mysteries to Solutions and Explanations. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract We argue that Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture (PA) is the right way to think about the architecture of the language faculty. The critical property of this architecture is that it allows for genuine explanation by allocating different aspects of linguistic phenomena to appropriate corresponding representations and capacities.
Culicover PW, Varaschin G.
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Evidence Against Syntactic Encapsulation in Large Language Models. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Transformer‐based large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of linguistic tasks. LLMs primarily combine information across words in a sentence using the attention mechanism, implemented by “attention heads:” these components assign numerical weights linking different words in the input to one ...
McGee TA, Zhang Y, Blank IA.
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Persian Double Object Constructions and Ditransitive Constructions within Distributed Morphology [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2021
The aim of this paper is to study dative and locative alternations in Persian based on Wood & Marantz (2017) within Distributed Morphology. We attempt to investigate the extent to which argument structure alternation can be reduced to the syntactic and ...
Vida Sadrolmamaleki, Mazdak Anushe
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