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Ditransitive constructions in Japanese

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Ditransitive constructions in Ainu

open access: yesSTUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2011
Abstract This paper shows that there are two ditransitive alignment types in Ainu, viz. a frequently-used double-object construction (DOC) and infrequently-used indirective object construction (IOC). Ainu ditransitives encoded by the DOC are unusual cross-linguistically because all of them, including the verb kor-e [have-CAUS] ‘give ...
Anna Bugaeva
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Reconstructing the ditransitive construction for Proto-Germanic: Gothic, Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic [PDF]

open access: yesFolia 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).
Johanna Barðdal
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Ditransitive constructions in Akebu

Studies in Language, 2020
Abstract This paper contributes to the typology of ditransitive constructions. Akebu (Kwa, Ghana-Togo mountain, West Africa) has four strategies of alignment of ditransitive verbs, if both theme and recipient objects are expressed: a neutral strategy, a possessive-like strategy, a strategy with a ...
Nadezhda Makeeva, Andrey Shluinsky
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A construction-based analysis of German ditransitive phraseologisms for language pedagogy

open access: yes, 2016
Earlier studies in phraseology described phraseologisms as idiosyncratic, idiomatic expressions with a meaning non-predictable from their constituent parts (Chafe 1968; Fraser 1970; Weinreich 1969).
F. Mollica   +3 more
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A Collostructional Analysis of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin

2020
By investigating the frequency distribution of 37 verbs in Mandarin ditransitive constructions and adopting a collostructional analysis (cf. Gries & Stefanowitsch [1]), this study aims to clarify the construction meaning of each type of ditransitive construction.
Huichen S. Hsiao, Lestari Mahastuti
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