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Selective transfer in the acquisition of English double object constructions by Brazilian learners

Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2013
The present study investigates the acquisition of the English double object constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995) by Brazilian learners. We hypothesize that, due to first language (L1) influences, the prepositional ditransitive construction (John gave a book to
Júlia Vidigal Zara, Fernando Luiz Pereira de Oliveira, Ricardo Augusto de Souza   +2 more
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Optional elements and variant structures in the productions of bei2 to give dative constructions in Cantonese-speaking adults and three-year-old children [PDF]

, 2010
To express object transfer, Cantonese-speakers use a ditransitive ([V-R-T] or [V-T-R] where V=Verb, T=Theme, R=Recipient), or a more complex prepositional/serial-verb (P/SV) construction.
Chow, DCC, McbrideCheng, C, Stokes, SF, Wong, AMY   +3 more
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Variation in Three-Participant Constructions in Eastern Mansi; pp. 120-130 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2012
In Eastern Mansi, there are two different active constructions and one passive construction used for expressing ditransitive action. The active constructions are the so called PO/SO construction and the so called DO/IO construction (see Dryer 1986). Also
Susanna Virtanen
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A Diachronic Perspective on the English Preposition TO and the Romanian Preposition LA

Linguaculture, 2021
The paper discusses the different evolution of the English preposition (P) to and the Romanian P la “at/to” which can be observed in the history of English and Romanian ditransitives.
Tania Zamfir
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APPLICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN MALANG JAVANESE

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2022
Malang Javanese has special characteristics due to many migrants in Malang that can affect the use of the Javanese language. Since many mother tongues of different places are spoken there, Malang Javanese can be expected to show divergences from the ...
Ayu Lityaningrum
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A cross dialectal view of the Arabic dative alternation [PDF]

, 2014
This paper is concerned with the syntax of ditransitive verbs in Arabic.We concentrate on the vernaculars, focussing in particular on three geographically spread dialects: Egyptian Cairene Arabic, the dominant vernacular in Egypt, Hijazi Arabic, spoken ...
Abdel-Massih E., Abu-Chacra F., Allen C., Bahloul M., Baker M., Beavers J., Borg A. J., Bresnan J., Camilleri M., Camilleri M., Cowell M., Croft W., Dalrymple M., Dowty D., Falk Y., Fassi-Fehri A., Gensler O. D., Hale K., Haspelmath M., Haspelmath M., Holes C., Jackendoff R., Kibort A., Kibort A., Krifka M., Larson R., Levin B., Levin B., Louisa Sadler, Luis A. R., Maris Camilleri, Moutaouail A., Orfali B., Ouhalla J., Pinker S., Primus B., Pylkkänen L., Rappaport Hovav M., Rappaport Hovav M., Retso J., Ryding K. C., Ryding K. C., Sadler L., Salih M., Shaimaa ElSadek, Soltan U., Spencer A., Sutcliffe E. F., Tucker M., Watson J. C. E., Wechsler S., Wilmsen D., Wilmsen D., Wilmsen D., Wright W.   +54 more
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The Effects of Referential Factors in Mojeno Trinitario Derived and Non-Derived Ditransitive Verbs

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
This paper investigates the effects of referential factors (more specifically the person hierarchy) in non-derived and derived three-participant constructions of Mojeno Trinitario, an Arawak language of Bolivia. The basic effect of referential properties
Françoise Rose
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Analisi comparativa del doppio accusativo latino

Pallas, 2016
This paper proposes a comparative analysis of some ditransitive verbs in Latin and English which assign accusative case to both internal arguments (theme and recipient). In English, these verbs also display the possibility to realize the recipient as the
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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The syntactic status of objects in Mòòré ditransitive constructions [PDF]

, 2015
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Pacchiarotti, Sara
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Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 494-527, June 2026.
Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz, Petar Milin, Dagmar Divjak   +2 more
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