Ditransitive Verbs and the Ditransitive Construction: A Diachronic Perspective [PDF]
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2011 This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs attested in the double object argument structure pattern in a corpus of 18th-century British ...
Colleman, Timothy
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AmpersandThe study explores the challenges encountered by Italian-speaking students with the learning of the German ditransitive construction. While prior research has extensively covered theoretical aspects of this construction, limited attention has been paid ...
Sabine De Knop, Fabio Mollica
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Why *John can’t contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs [PDF]
Odisea, 2017 : this article examines the conceptual structure of the main constructions in which Levin’s (1993) contribute verbs appear, viz. the ditransitive and the dative constructions, which often alternate.
Andreea Rosca +1 more
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Analysis of argument structure constructions in a deep recurrent language model [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational NeuroscienceUnderstanding how language and linguistic constructions are processed in the brain is a fundamental question in cognitive computational neuroscience. This study builds directly on our previous work analyzing Argument Structure Constructions (ASCs) in the
Pegah Ramezani +5 more
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Analysis of argument structure constructions in the large language model BERT [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceUnderstanding how language and linguistic constructions are processed in the brain is a fundamental question in cognitive computational neuroscience.
Pegah Ramezani +5 more
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Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
Nordic Journal of African StudiesThis study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction ...
Bebwa Isingoma, Peace Yikiru
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Left inferior frontal activations depending on the canonicity determined by the argument structures of ditransitive sentences: an MEG study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 To elucidate the relationships between syntactic and semantic processes, one interesting question is how syntactic structures are constructed by the argument structure of a verb, where each argument corresponds to a semantic role of each noun phrase (NP).
Tomoo Inubushi +3 more
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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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Persian Double Object Constructions and Ditransitive Constructions within Distributed Morphology [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 The aim of this paper is to study dative and locative alternations in Persian based on Wood & Marantz (2017) within Distributed Morphology. We attempt to investigate the extent to which argument structure alternation can be reduced to the syntactic and ...
Vida Sadrolmamaleki, Mazdak Anushe
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The development of and factors influencing double object construction preference of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2022 The paper investigates the double object constructions, viz. SVOi Od and SVOOprep clause patterns, of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive. The syntactic and semantic specificity of the two verbs in question may indicate a possible future extinction ...
Veronika Hlaváčková +1 more
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