Explaining pretrained language models' understanding of linguistic structures using construction grammar. [PDF]
Front Artif Intell, 2023 Weissweiler L +3 more
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Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages
, 2023 Zehentner, Eva +2 more
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Explaining Siewierska's generalization. [PDF]
J Comp Ger Linguist, 2021 Hallman P.
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A comparative analysis of three-place predicates in Lakhota within the RRG framework [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides a Role and Reference Grammar (hereafter RRG) (Van Valin and LaPolla 1997) study of transitivity in Lakhota, putting special emphasis on the analysis of three-place predicates and the coding alternations they enter into.
Corral Esteban, Avelino
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Constructing a protolanguage: reconstructing prehistoric languages in a usage-based construction grammar framework. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Hartmann S, Pleyer M.
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Scope ambiguities, monads and strengths
, 2016 In this paper, we will discuss three semantically distinct scope assignment strategies: traditional movement strategy, polyadic approach, and continuation-based approach.
Grudzinska, Justyna, Zawadowski, Marek
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Object control interpretations with volitional verbs in infinitive complexes of Early Modern English [PDF]
, 2019 The study investigates object control interpretations with volitional verbs followed by infinitives of ditransitive and complex-transitive complementation in Early Modern English.
Тугай, Олександра Миколаївна
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The Old English to-dative construction
, 2014 In Present-day English (PDE), the to-dative construction refers to clauses like John sold/offered/mentioned/gave the books to Mary, in which a ditransitive verb takes a Recipient that is expressed as a to-Prepositional Phrase (to-PP). This study examines
De Cuypere, Ludovic
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How Grammar Conveys Meaning: Language-Specific Spatial Encoding Patterns and Cross-Language Commonality in Higher-Order Neural Space. [PDF]
J Neurosci, 2023 Wang J, Lin H, Cai Q.
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Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese [PDF]
, 2010 This paper is one argument for a theory of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there are no grammatical relations beyond semantic roles, and no lexical relation-changing rules.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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