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Ditransitive Verbs and the Ditransitive Construction: A Diachronic Perspective [PDF]

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2011
This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs attested in the double object argument structure pattern in a corpus of 18th-century British ...
Colleman, Timothy
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Emerging networks: the role of horizontal relations in the acquisition of the German ditransitive construction

Cognitive Linguistics
In the Construction Grammar framework, grammatical knowledge is described as a network of related constructions. While usage-based language acquisition research has investigated the emergence of taxonomic relations and the development of abstract ...
Patrizzi Laura
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Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati

Nordic Journal of African Studies
This 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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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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Are there biological gender differences at the early stages of first language acquisition when producing double object constructions and to/for-datives? [PDF]

, 2023
Producción CientíficaThis study examines whether biological gender differences appear in the early stages of acquisition in the case of English dative alternation (DA) structures (double object constructions (DOCs) and to/for-datives).
Fernández Fuertes, Raquel, Sánchez Calderón, Silvia   +1 more
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PERAN THETA ARGUMEN SUBJEK PADA KONSTRUKSI PASIF VERBA-VERBA DITRANSITIVE BAHASA INGGRIS

TOTOBUANG, 2023
English is an established language. Beside, It is undeniable, the stability of English is reflected in its systematic grammar, productivity, and the development of new words that continue to grow. However, it turns out that for verbs.
Elisa Nurul Laili, Sakhi Herwiana, Hanafi Wibowo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source