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Developmental Science, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic knowledge, with a focus on the Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive construction in Korean. We develop various neural‐network models and measure their classification performance on the test stimuli used in a behavioural ...
Gyu‐Ho Shin, Seongmin Mun
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Embodiment, Semantics and Social Action: The Case of Object-Transfer in L2 Classroom Interaction
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Using conversation analysis and usage-based linguistics, I focus on a beginning L2 user in an ESL classroom and trace his use of a “family of expressions” which, from the perspective of linguistic theory, are instantiations of either the ditransitive ...
S. W. Eskildsen
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Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. [PDF]
, 2007 In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to ...
Bakker, Dik, Siewierska, Anna
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Valency-Increasing Mechanism in the Dawan Language
Suar Betang, 2022 This article discusses the valency-increasing mechanism in the Dawan language. The data was obtained through observation of Dawan language speakers by applying the note-taking method.
Naniana N. Benu +3 more
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Entre passif et anticausatif : étude des formes itCaCaC en arabe du Caire
Lidil, 2021 This study deals with the interpretations received by verbs formed on the t‑I pattern in Cairo Arabic, passive and anticausative interpretations. First, we note on the one hand that verbs of t‑I form characterized by an inherent transitivity receive only
Julie Haslé
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Dative alternation in Indian English: a corpus-based study [PDF]
, 2013 The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction (I give my sister a book) vs. the to-dative construction (I give a book to my sister).
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]
, 2015 Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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Double Object Constructions in Afro-Brazilian Portuguese
Isogloss, 2023 During the colonial period (16th - 19th centuries), Brazil was a multilingual country, home to Portuguese, Indigenous peoples, and Africans. Portuguese was learned as a second language by the Africans brought to Brazil by the slave trade, mainly under ...
Isis JULIANA FIGUEIREDO DE BARROS +1 more
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