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On regression modeling in varieties research
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 57-77, March-June 2025.Abstract One particularly prominent methodological development in linguistics is what has been termed the “quantitative turn”: Not only are more and more studies using statistical tools to explore data and to test hypotheses, the complexity of the statistical methods employed is growing as well.
Stefan Th. Gries
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Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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Passivization of Ditransitive Verbs in Persian Based on Symmetric Move Approach [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānThis research examines the passivization of sentences with ditransitive verbs in Persian, based on the notion of symmetric move. The two objects of these sentences can move to the specifier of the tense head in the passive sentence. However, according to
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Ditransitive argument structure constructions in FLT
, 2022 Construction Grammar (CxG) has established itself as a fruitful descriptive model not only for theoretical studies but also for applied areas such as foreign language learning (FLL) and teaching (FLT) (see e.g.
Mollica, Fabio, De Knop, Sabine
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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, 2023 According to Malchukov, Haspelmath and Comrie a ditransitive construction is a construction consisting of a ditransitive verb, an agent argument, a recipient-like argument, and a theme argument.
Kajala, Jukka
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The Dative Markers and Their Developments in Hunan Sinitic Languages
LanguagesThis study is based on a sample of 30 Sinitic languages spoken in the Hunan Province. Its first objective is to explore the types of dative markers, comparing the form of the dative with allative, passive, benefactive, and differential object markers in ...
Xinyi Gao
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The syntax of (ditransitive) predicates of transference in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2016 This article examines the syntax of ditransitive predicates of transference in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP), as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) as well as other Romance languages.
Heloisa Maria Lima-Salles
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 308-326, July 2024.Abstract This paper presents the results of a corpus study on the Wycliffe Bible and the King James Bible, examining the distribution of the pronouns who(m)/which and the complementiser that in relative clauses with a personal referent. The data indicate that the decisive factor in both periods was the function of the gap (subject vs.
Julia Bacskai‐Atkari
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Cognitive LinguisticsIn the Construction Grammar framework, grammatical knowledge is described as a network of related constructions. While usage-based language acquisition research has investigated the emergence of taxonomic relations and the development of abstract ...
Patrizzi Laura
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