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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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Ditransitive and Dative Constructions in English and Thai Languages
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021 This article presents predominant views of the English and Thai ditransitive and dative sentence structures that take verbs to have two major meanings based on schemata: a caused possession and a caused motion.
Anongnad Petchprasert
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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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A Corpus-Based Research on Ditransitive Constructions with Tell and Say
Sumerianz journal of education, linguistics and literature, 2021 Learners’ errors give insights to teachers, textbook writers, curriculum designers and many applied linguists about the learning difficulty in the acquisition of a target language.
Hafissatou Kane
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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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The syntactic status of objects in Mòòré ditransitive constructions [PDF]
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Pacchiarotti, Sara
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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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The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian foreign language learners [PDF]
, 2014 Ditransitive verbs include a “recipient” and a “theme” argument (in addition to the subject). The choice of putting one argument before the other (i.e., either recipient-theme, or theme-recipient) is associated with multiple discourse-pragmatic factors ...
Baten, Kristof +2 more
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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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