IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary StudiesEnglish ditransitive construction and dative alteration construction is a structure that English learners are bound to encounter on their way of learning.
Yanting Shen
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Recording and explaining : exploring the German ditransitive alternation [PDF]
, 2019 In this discussion note, we offer some thoughts on the relation between explanation and the extensive recording of data from a ‘moderate’ functional point of view.
De Cuypere, Ludovic +2 more
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Expressing the GIVE event in Papuan languages: A preliminary survey
, 2013 The linguistic expression of the GIVE event is investigated in a sample of 72 Papuan languages, 33 belonging to the Trans New Guinea family, 39 of various non-TNG lineages.
Reesink, G.
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Elicited imitation as a window into developmental stages [PDF]
, 2019 In the second language acquisition literature, data of naturally occurring language use are considered the most ideal data to make statements about second-language (L2) development.
Baten, Kristof, Cornillie, Frederik
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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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On the perspectivization of a recipient role - cross-linguistic results from a speech production experiment on GET-passives in German, Dutch and Luxembourgish [PDF]
, 2010 The focus of this paper is the perspectivization of thematic roles generally and the recipient role specifically. Whereas perspective is defined here as the representation of something for someone from a given position (Sandig 1996: 37 ...
Lenz, Alexandra N.
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Comparing linguistic judgments and corpus frequencies as windows on grammatical competence: A study of argument linearization in German clauses [PDF]
, 2008 We present an overview of several corpus studies we carried out into the frequencies of argument NP orderings in the midfield of subordinate and main clauses of German.
Harbusch, K., Kempen, G.
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The semantics of the aan-construction in 16th-century Dutch : a semasiological and onomasiological approach [PDF]
, 2017 This article focuses on the semantics of the Dutch aan-construction NP V NP aan NP], for example, Jan geeft een boek aan Piet ('Jan gives a book to Piet') in the 16th-century.
Rens, Dario
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Word orders with ditransitive verbs
Acta Academica, 2001 From text: The word order of any sentence with a ditransitive verb will of necessity differ materially from word orders where the V is transitive or intransitive, due to the fact that the ditransitive verb has a twofold object.
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Folia linguistica, 2019 The semantic range of ditransitive verbs in Modern English has been at the center of linguistic attention ever since the pioneering work of Pinker (1989. Learnability and cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).
Juan G. Vázquez-González +1 more
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