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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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Prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese: on the rise of a novel system
Revista Linguística, 2023 The study examines the prepositional system of Brazilian Portuguese, considering the loss of the dative preposition a (to) in constructions with dative arguments and differential object marking (DOM), as well as in unaccusatives predicates with ...
Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima Salles
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On the analysis of non-selected datives in Maltese [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides a descriptive overview of extra-argumental or non-selected datives in Maltese, poorly described in existing grammars. We outline an LFG approach to the facts we describe building on existing LFG work and in particular on Kibort (2008)?
Camilleri, M, Sadler, L
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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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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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The Effect of ‘Heavy’ Recipient on the Ditransitive Constructions in Five Languages
Journal of Theory and Practice of Social ScienceThe study of ditransitive constructions often focuses on factors that influence their encoding, with the "end-weight" principle playing a key role in organizing informational structure. "End-weight" refers to "a tendency to reserve the final position for
Yawen Zhong
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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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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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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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