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Referential Hierarchy Effects in Yakkha Three-Participant Constructions
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 Yakkha (Kiranti language family, Nepal) has several constructions where speech act participants (SAP) and third persons are not treated alike. Such effects are found in the treatment of agents and patients of two-participant constructions, but also in ...
Diana Schackow
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Isogloss, 2023 In this study, we propose a comparative analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP) and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), taking into consideration the phenomenon named Double Pronominalization, in ...
Heloisa Salles +1 more
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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages
, 2023 This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as ...
Zehentner, Eva +2 more
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 67-102, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates how distributional cues are integrated into the mental representation of the as‐predicative construction by English native and nonnative speakers, drawing on associative learning theory. We examined speakers’ constructional retrieval when given a verbal cue (Experiment 1) and their verb retrieval when given a ...
Ivana Domazetoska, Helen Zhao
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Cognitive LinguisticsLanguage comprehension involves simulating event representations. However, previous research has primarily focused on discrete linguistic cues, paying little attention to how syntactic constructions influence experiential simulations. This study examines
Zhang Wanyu +3 more
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Linguistic Discovery, 2002 Agreement in Itelmen is represented by means of both prefixes and suffixes. While the prefixes reference subjects (of both transitive and intransitive verbs), the suffixal agreement morphemes on a given verb may reference the subject, the object, or an ...
Jonathan David Bobaljik, Susi Wurmbrand
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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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The semantics of ditransitive construction in a diachronic perspective
Gragoatá, 2020 This paper focuses on the ditransitive construction of Brazilian Portuguese, aiming at examining its semantic evolution. To this end, it compares manifestations of this construction in the 18th and 20th centuries in order to investigate whether there has
Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha
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Ditransitive predicates and dative arguments in Maltese
, 2013 This paper is concerned with the syntactic expression of three argument (ditransitive) predicates in Maltese. We provide the first detailed description of the ditransitive constructions found in Maltese, which have been largely ignored in the substantial
Camilleri, Maris, Sadler, Louisa
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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