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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, 2019 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 Baloch, Farida Panhwar, Dr
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'Give' Constructions in the Papuan Languages of Timor-Alor-Pantar
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper describes three-participant ‘give’ constructions in ten Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) family. Generally lacking a class of simple ditransitive root verbs, TAP languages express ‘give’ events by means ...
Marian Klamer, Antionette Schapper
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Data set of ditransitive alignment patterns
, 2022 Classe NF, Bárány A. Data set of ditransitive alignment patterns.
Classe, Nora Friederike +3 more
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Linguistic Discovery, 2012 Introduction to special issue on Referential Effects on the Expression of Three-Participant Events across ...
Eva van Lier
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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, D. +3 more
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Ditransitive Constructions in Laz
Linguistic Discovery, 2011 This paper examines ditransitives in ...
René Lacroix
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 494-527, June 2026.Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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A Corpus Study of Mexican Spanish Three-Participant Constructions with and without Clitic Doubling
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 In Spanish verbs associated with three participants – Agent, Theme and Recipient – may appear in alternating constructions, where the 3rd person recipient argument is realized as a prepositional phrase (PP) (Pedro envió una carta a Mar ...
Chiyo Nishida
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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KA…HOO CONSTRUCTIONS IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2009 Taiwan Southern Min ka and hoo have been broadly investigated in the literature (e.g., Cheng et al. 1999, Lien 2002, Tsao 2005). However, very little of the previous research has focused on the interaction between these two functional words.
Hui-Chi Lee
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