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The Syntax of Mandarin Long Gei Passives Revisited
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2023 This article examines the syntactic structure of long gei passives in Mandarin Chinese and argues against the prepositional analysis of gei in long passives.
Huang Rui-heng Ray
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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 ...
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Ditransitive Construction and Possible Ways of Passivisation
, 2022 The analysis indicates that the verbs used in ditransitive constructions are not always regarded as ditransitive verbs and the notion of ditransitive constructions may not directly correspond to ditransitive verbs per se.
DIANCHENG LI (14048025)
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Developmental Science, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic knowledge, with a focus on the Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive construction in Korean. We develop various neural‐network models and measure their classification performance on the test stimuli used in a behavioural ...
Gyu‐Ho Shin, Seongmin Mun
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Eliminating Ditransitives [PDF]
, 2012 We discuss how higher arity verbs such as give or promise can be treated in an algebraic framework that admits only unary and binary relations and does not rely on event variables.
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"Wh"-phrases and "wh"-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 In this paper I explore wh-phrases and wh-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Simplex and complex wh-phrases in LAC can be divided into eleven semantic categories.
Aiqing Wang
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Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven [PDF]
, 2022 The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence matching task measuring accuracy and response times (comprehension).
Jasmin M. KIZILIRMAK +5 more
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Ditransitive Verbs: An English Print Media based Comparison of Pakistani English and British English
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2018 The present study highlights the ditransitive complementation between Pakistani English (PE) and British English (BE). The ditransitive verb complementation allows double objects in a sentence i.e. indirect object and direct object.
Asadullah Balouch
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How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama-Nyungan, Australia). [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Sentence production is a stage‐like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus must necessarily influence sentence production, psycholinguistic studies of diverse languages are comparatively rare.
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The Effects of Referential Factors in Mojeno Trinitario Derived and Non-Derived Ditransitive Verbs
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper investigates the effects of referential factors (more specifically the person hierarchy) in non-derived and derived three-participant constructions of Mojeno Trinitario, an Arawak language of Bolivia. The basic effect of referential properties
Françoise Rose
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