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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 308-326, July 2024.Abstract This paper presents the results of a corpus study on the Wycliffe Bible and the King James Bible, examining the distribution of the pronouns who(m)/which and the complementiser that in relative clauses with a personal referent. The data indicate that the decisive factor in both periods was the function of the gap (subject vs.
Julia Bacskai‐Atkari
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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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Remarks on the ditransitive construction in German
, 2020 This article compares three definitions of "ditransitive" with a view to determining how the differences and similarities between them can be accommodated under an overarching notion of ditransitive that takes into account the specifics of both verb ...
Willems, Klaas
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The syntactic status of objects in Mòòré ditransitive constructions
, 2015 This paper offers a structural description of the overt and covert properties of objects in Mooré (Gur, Burkina Faso) ditransitive constructions, along with a list of verbs which can be classified as ditransitive in this language on the basis of specific
Pacchiarotti, SaraLW210001903513828020027939390000-0003-1360-5060100682D4-F4C8-11E7-A048-ADCA11A95AF2 +1 more
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Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 672-691, May 2024.Abstract Recent psycholinguistic research underscores the significance of multiword units in language processing and acquisition, aligning with the Chunk‐and‐Pass framework. In this study, 55 low‐proficiency Japanese English learners and 27 native English speakers undertook a phrasal decision task featuring two trigram types: syntactically and ...
Takumi Kosaka
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Acquisition of argument structures and ditransitive verbs: Evidence from an elliptical language
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2023 In first language acquisition, verbs can be regarded as the word types which are more challenging to comprehend and interpret due to their cognitive and linguistic constraints (Sofu & Ertekin Sucak, 2018).
Burcu Turhan
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The syntax of (ditransitive) predicates of transference in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2016 This article examines the syntax of ditransitive predicates of transference in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP), as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) as well as other Romance languages.
Heloisa Maria Lima-Salles
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Ditransitive constructions in Cantonese: the give-construction as the non-prototypical example
, 2007 INTRODUCTION : 1. The default definition for a ditransitive construction is almost invariably ‘a construction like the give-construction’. 2. While the give-construction is the most representative example of such constructions in most languages, this is ...
Lam, OSC
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Ditransitive constructions: creole languages in a cross-linguistic perspective
, 2003 In this paper, we argue that the ditransitive constructions in creole languages worldwide are best explained on the basis of influence from substrate languages in Africa and the Pacific region.http://www.creolica.net/Ditransitive-constructions ...
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