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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"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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Dative alternation in Indian English: a corpus-based study [PDF]
, 2013 The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction (I give my sister a book) vs. the to-dative construction (I give a book to my sister).
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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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.
Kidd E +4 more
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]
, 2015 Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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RESEARCH RESULT Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2021 The relevance of the paper is substantiated by the representation of the analysis of utterances generated on the template of ditransitive construction via the methods of cognitive and corpus linguistics.
D. Makoeva +2 more
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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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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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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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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