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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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The Complex Domain Matrix of Ditransitive Constructions

, 2021
This study focuses on the semantics of ditransitive constructions. Its main aim is to show that the semantics of this type of construction is made up of elements belonging to different conceptual domains. In order to fully analyze the complexity inherent
Huelva-Unternbaumen, Enrique
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Explaining the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint: A usage-based approach

Constructions, 2004
In this paper, I propose a frequency-based explanation of the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint, a cross-linguistic generalization that can be formulated as follows: “Combinations of bound pronouns with the roles Recipient and Theme are disfavored if ...
Martin Haspelmath
doaj  

Rules as data

Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.
Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
wiley   +1 more source

Créoles et français : Quelques différences dans la valence verbale

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015
In this contribution, I look at four valency patterns of Creole spoken in the Seychelles and Mauritius, which clearly differ from the corresponding French patterns.
Sibylle Kriegel
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The multiword processing by low‐proficiency Japanese English learners: Meaningfulness and constructions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 672-691, May 2024.
Abstract Recent psycholinguistic research underscores the significance of multiword units in language processing and acquisition, aligning with the Chunk‐and‐Pass framework. In this study, 55 low‐proficiency Japanese English learners and 27 native English speakers undertook a phrasal decision task featuring two trigram types: syntactically and ...
Takumi Kosaka
wiley   +1 more source

How to foster the learning of the German ditransitive construction with corpus data

, 2023
Ditransitive constructions constitute a central topic in Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1992 & 2019; Proost 2014), they have been defined as form-meaning pairs expressing a transfer of a theme/patient (expressed by the direct object) to a recipient ...
Mollica, Fabio, De Knop, Sabine
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The French ditransitive transfer construction and the complementarity between the meta-predicates GIVE, TAKE, KEEP, LEAVE: The hypothesis of a grammatical enantiosemy

, 2021
International audienceWe revisit in this chapter the status and meaning of the French Ditransitive Transfer Construction. We show that the construction allows four interpretations that can be accounted for by the antonymous Meta-Predicates GIVE, TAKE ...
Legallois, Dominique
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VERBA BERVALENSI SATU, DUA, DAN TIGA PADA BAHASA MAKASAE

Jurnal Pesona, 2016
Makasae language which is called BMk is a language that identifies the three majorregencies of Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste RDTL. Nonetheless, the BMkspeakers generally are able to speak two or more local languages included threeforeign languages
Antonio Constantino Soares
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Ditransitive Constructions in Laz

Linguistic Discovery, 2011
This paper examines ditransitives in ...
openaire   +5 more sources