Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract We report the results of two acceptability judgment experiments on English materials, which were designed in order to help disentangle predictions of syntactic theories with transformations from nontransformational theories. The materials in these experiments were motivated from examples from Pickering & Barry (1991), who provided intuitive ...
da Cunha Y, Gibson E.
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Evidence Against Syntactic Encapsulation in Large Language Models. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Transformer‐based large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of linguistic tasks. LLMs primarily combine information across words in a sentence using the attention mechanism, implemented by “attention heads:” these components assign numerical weights linking different words in the input to one ...
McGee TA, Zhang Y, Blank IA.
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Ditransitive Construction in English, Hungarian, Turkish, and Indonesian Language
Loquen, 2021 : Every language shows a different way of expressing ditransitive construction. Thus, the present study aims to investigate and compare the important elements exhibit in the languages under discussion in constructing ditransitive sentences.
Hyunisa Rahmanadia
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A manysi ditranzitív igék szintaxisa szemantikai megközelítésből [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2016 The syntax of the Mansi ditransitive verbs from the aspect of their semantics *** The paper investigates the ditransitive constructions and the ditransitive verbs of the Mansi language.
Sipőcz, Katalin
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Ditransitive constructions [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 Ditransitive constructions are syntactic constructions with three arguments, an agent (A), a theme (T), and a recipient (R), which express an event of possessive transfer (‘give,’ ‘lend,’ etc.) or an event of cognitive transfer (‘tell,’ ‘show,’ etc.). Their cross-linguistic study has revealed three major alignment types: indirective alignment (with the
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The semantics of ditransitive construction in a diachronic perspective
Gragoatá, 2020 This paper focuses on the ditransitive construction of Brazilian Portuguese, aiming at examining its semantic evolution. To this end, it compares manifestations of this construction in the 18th and 20th centuries in order to investigate whether there has
Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha
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Are there biological gender differences at the early stages of first language acquisition when producing double object constructions and to/for-datives? [PDF]
, 2023 Producción CientíficaThis study examines whether biological gender differences appear in the early stages of acquisition in the case of English dative alternation (DA) structures (double object constructions (DOCs) and to/for-datives).
Fernández Fuertes, Raquel +1 more
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Isogloss, 2023 In this study, we propose a comparative analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP) and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), taking into consideration the phenomenon named Double Pronominalization, in ...
Heloisa Salles +1 more
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How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama-Nyungan, Australia). [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Sentence production is a stage‐like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus must necessarily influence sentence production, psycholinguistic studies of diverse languages are comparatively rare.
Kidd E +4 more
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The semantics of the aan-construction in 16th-century Dutch : a semasiological and onomasiological approach [PDF]
, 2017 This article focuses on the semantics of the Dutch aan-construction NP V NP aan NP], for example, Jan geeft een boek aan Piet ('Jan gives a book to Piet') in the 16th-century.
Rens, Dario
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