Ditransitive verbs and the ditransitive construction: a diachronic perspective [PDF]
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2011 This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs
Colleman, Timothy
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Ditransitive Constructions in Zaza Language
Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2021 Languages group verbs in different ways. Because of the ergative feature of Zazaki, it plays a big role whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
İlyas Arslan
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Ditransitive Constructions in Laz
Linguistic Discovery, 2011 This paper examines ditransitives in ...
René Lacroix
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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg +2 more
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Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
Nordic Journal of African StudiesThis study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction ...
Bebwa Isingoma, Peace Yikiru
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Analysis of argument structure constructions in a deep recurrent language model [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational NeuroscienceUnderstanding how language and linguistic constructions are processed in the brain is a fundamental question in cognitive computational neuroscience. This study builds directly on our previous work analyzing Argument Structure Constructions (ASCs) in the
Pegah Ramezani +5 more
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KA…HOO CONSTRUCTIONS IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2009 Taiwan Southern Min ka and hoo have been broadly investigated in the literature (e.g., Cheng et al. 1999, Lien 2002, Tsao 2005). However, very little of the previous research has focused on the interaction between these two functional words.
Hui-Chi Lee
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Why *John can’t contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs [PDF]
Odisea, 2017 : this article examines the conceptual structure of the main constructions in which Levin’s (1993) contribute verbs appear, viz. the ditransitive and the dative constructions, which often alternate.
Andreea Rosca +1 more
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The development of and factors influencing double object construction preference of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2022 The paper investigates the double object constructions, viz. SVOi Od and SVOOprep clause patterns, of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive. The syntactic and semantic specificity of the two verbs in question may indicate a possible future extinction ...
Veronika Hlaváčková +1 more
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Persian Double Object Constructions and Ditransitive Constructions within Distributed Morphology [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 The aim of this paper is to study dative and locative alternations in Persian based on Wood & Marantz (2017) within Distributed Morphology. We attempt to investigate the extent to which argument structure alternation can be reduced to the syntactic and ...
Vida Sadrolmamaleki, Mazdak Anushe
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