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VERB-INDIRECT OBJECT-DIRECT OBJECT and VERB-DIRECT OBJECT-INDIRECT OBJECT
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the study of constituent order in ditransitive constructions by means of a variationist analysis based on spoken Spanish from Madrid. We analyze the variable position of objects in ditransitive clauses.
Javier Rivas
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Ditransitive constructions: Towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account?
This paper examines the treatment of ditransitive constructions in Role and Reference Grammar and compares it to the perspective on ditransitives that I have developed in earlier work (Haspelmath 2005a, 2007a), as well as to some other formal grammatical
Martin Haspelmath +2 more
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This paper proposes a frequency-based explanation of the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint, a cross-linguistic generalization that can be formulated as follows: "Combinations of bound pronouns with the roles Recipient and Theme are disfavored ...
Haspelmath, Martin
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Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment
This paper argues that language-particular restrictions on ditransitive construc- tions are best understood as instantiations of easily falsifiable implicational universals that can be explained functionally, rather than as falling out from a restrictive
Haspelmath, Martin, Haspelmath, M.
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Selective transfer in the acquisition of English double object constructions by Brazilian learners
The present study investigates the acquisition of the English double object constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995) by Brazilian learners. We hypothesize that, due to first language (L1) influences, the prepositional ditransitive construction (John gave a book to
Júlia Vidigal Zara +2 more
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Latin verbs with double accusative and their passivization
The goal of this paper is to re-examine the behaviour of Latin verbs taking double accusative from the perspective of functional-typological research on the so-called “ditransitive constructions”.
Maria Napoli
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Between shifts and alternations: Ditransitive constructions
In this paper I present two classes of double object constructions in Modern Greek, i.e., the genitive, as well as the double accusative, ditransitive constructions. I show that these two classes differ from one another in that not both of them permit
Kordoni, Valia
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Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Words and the Receptive-Expressive Gap in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children. [PDF]
Artis J, Arunachalam S.
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Ditransitive constructions : A challenge for Italian learners of German
Many studies have dealt in full length with ditransitive constructions from a theoretical point of view (Goldberg 1995, 2006; Haspelmath 2004, Malkuchov et al.
Mollica, Fabio, De Knop, Sabine
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Argument structure hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions
Many varieties of Arabic display a causative construction that adds a causer to the argument structure of the underlying verb. When this verb is transitive, the causative derivative is ditransitive.
Peter Hallman
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