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Semantic Interpretations of Ditransitive Constructions in English
American journal of undergraduate research, 2023 This study addresses claims made by two theories—the Alternative Projection and Verb Sensitive approaches—regarding an interpretation of possession attributed to certain ditransitive constructions.
Marcella M. Jurotich
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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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Journal of Child Language, 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).
Anna-Lena Scherger +2 more
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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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Logical Transductions for the Typology of Ditransitive Prosody
Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology Workshop, 2022 Given the empirical landscape of possible prosodic parses, this paper examines the computations required to formalize the mapping from syntactic structure to prosodic structure.
Mai Ha Vu +2 more
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Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT, 2022 The current study seeks to revisit the analysis that attributes the infelicity, in all varieties of English, of strings like (1) ‘*He gave the man it’ and (2) ‘*He gave to him it’ to “the clash between the topical character of the pronoun ‘it’ and the ...
Bebwa Isingoma
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Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. [PDF]
, 2007 In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to ...
Bakker, Dik, Siewierska, Anna
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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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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 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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