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The function of pronominal expressions in Puxian [PDF]

, 2010
Puxian, a Min dialect of China, has many significant linguistic features. Based on a corpus of spoken data, this thesis sets out to examine aspects of the grammar of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the ...
Siewierska, Anna, Hollmann, Willem, Wu, Jianming   +2 more
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Differential Marking of inanimate direct objects across four varieties of Spanish: Evidence for grammatical differences from elicitation experiments

Glossa
While animacy is considered to be one of the decisive factors for Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish, many authors have capitalized on the fact that inanimate objects also can be marked to a certain degree (Camacho, 2023; Company Company, 2002;
Albert Wall, Johannes Kabatek, Patrick Santos Rebelo, Philipp Obrist, Senta Zeugin   +4 more
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Ditransitive predicates and dative arguments in Maltese

, 2013
This paper is concerned with the syntactic expression of three argument (ditransitive) predicates in Maltese. We provide the first detailed description of the ditransitive constructions found in Maltese, which have been largely ignored in the substantial
Camilleri, Maris, Sadler, Louisa
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A typological gap in ditransitive constructions: No secundative case and indirective agreement

, 2021
Bárány A. A typological gap in ditransitive constructions: No secundative case and indirective agreement. In: Soo R, Chow UY, Nederveen S, eds. Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
Nederveen, Sander, Bárány, András ; https://orcid.org/, Soo, Rachel, Chow, Una Y.   +3 more
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A Usage-Based Proposal for Argument Structure of Directional Verbs in American Sign Language. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Hou L.
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A Case Study on the Acquisition of the Chinese Ditransitive Constructions

, 2015
This research investigates a Chinese child’s acquisition process for the Chinese ditransitive constructions employing the natural observation method. It explores the controversial issue whether the acquisition of early abstract constructions is based on ...
Yang, Xu
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Bantu Verbal Extensions Between Morphology and Syntax

Languages
Bantu languages represent a typical example of how morphology and syntax are deeply intertwined. Indeed, these agglutinative languages employ affixes, hence morphemes, to express relations that in other languages—like Italian or English—are conveyed by ...
Gloria Cocchi
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Idioms in Korean Ditransitive Constructions

Studies in Linguistics, 2015
This paper discusses a so-called asymmetric theory of idiom formation in Korean ditransitive constructions, focusing on its problems. The asymmetric approach, in particular proposed by Kim (2012), claims that the prepositional dative (PD) and the double object construction (DOC) are syntactically different, and that this difference is able to predict ...
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Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment

, 2007
This paper argues that language-particular restrictions on ditransitive construc- tions are best understood as instantiations of easily falsifiable implicational universals that can be explained functionally, rather than as falling out from a restrictive
Haspelmath, Martin, Haspelmath, M.
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Detecting patterns of change in the development of the Mandarin dative alternation: from attraction to differentiation and the reversal

Cognitive Linguistics
The Mandarin dative alternation encompasses four constructions whose changing functions and driving forces of change have not been systematically addressed.
Liu Meili, Li Yi
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