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Competing ditransitive constructions in Enets

Functions of Language, 2020
Abstract This paper reports on a corpus study of two ditransitive constructions in Enets (Uralic, Samoyedic): the standard ditransitive construction and the so-called Destinative construction involving a specific destinative nominal morpheme.
Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky
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Ditransitive constructions in the history of German

2023
Abstract In modern Standard German, the base order of direct and indirect full noun objects in the ‘Mittelfeld’ is considered to be IO>DO. Deviation from this order is influenced by various linguistic factors such as prosody, complexity, syntactic structure, animacy, definiteness, and information structure.
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Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese

2015
This paper studies ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese, one of the seven main Chinese language families. Gan dialects have the ‘inverted’ double object construction, as schematized in the order of “verb-DO-IO” (DO stands for direct object and IO for indirect object), as contrasted with the ‘canonical’ double object construction in Mandarin, such ...
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(A)symmetry in Ditransitive Constructions

The Institute of Humanities, 2023
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Language corpora and first language acquisition—A case study of the ditransitive construction

Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2023
Jakov Proroković, Frane Malenica
exaly  

On the Syntax of Ditransitive Constructions

2008
This paper deals with modelling the argument structure of constructions with two internal arguments expressing a beneficiary/recipient and a patient/theme. It offers an analysis of the dative shift which captures both the alternative grammatical function mappings and the altered semantics of the participants of the related predicates.
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Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2020
Rosa Maria Ortiz Ciscomani
exaly  

The French ditransitive transfer construction and the complementarity between the meta-predicates give, take, keep, leave

Constructional Approaches To Language, 2021
exaly  

Bidirectional transfers of the ditransitive construction in Chinese

Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 2020
Yuzhi Shi
exaly  

Ditransitive Constructions

2008
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