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Assigning meaning to light verbs in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 Light verb constructions (e.g., give a kiss to somebody) syntactically reflect typical ditransitive structures (e.g., give a violin to somebody) yet it is not clear whether these two structures thematically similar as well.
Duygu ÖZGE +2 more
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A syntactic-semantic analysis of English (non)-dativizable constructions in the production of a set of 2L1 English/Spanish simultaneous bilingual twins [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyzes the syntactico-semantic factors which trigger Dative shift in English dativizable verbs, i.e. those verbs that allow alternation between double object and prepositional complement constructions.
Fernandez Fuertes, Raquel +1 more
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Early Emergence of Agreement in Yucatec Maya Sign Language
Languages, 2022 In many sign languages, space is used to express grammatical features. However, verb agreement in space is noticeably slow to appear in emerging sign languages.
Olivier Le Guen
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Les constructions transitives en likwála, langue bantu (C. 26) parlée en République du Congo [PDF]
Akofena, 2022 Le but de ce travail est d’étudier le fonctionnement des constructions transitives du likwála. Cette langue dispose de deux types de constructions transitives : des constructions transitives canoniques et des constructions transitives non canoniques. Les
Régina Patience IKEMOU
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Latin verbs with double accusative and their passivization
Pallas, 2016 The goal of this paper is to re-examine the behaviour of Latin verbs taking double accusative from the perspective of functional-typological research on the so-called “ditransitive constructions”.
Maria Napoli
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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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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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Grammatical relations in Ikalanga
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Joyce T. Mathangwane, E. Kweku Osam
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 Contrary to the view that in Bantu languages the two unmarked nominals following the verb in ditransitive constructions need not be distinguished because both possess the same object properties, this paper shows the necessity of making a distinction ...
Videa P. De Guzman
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Isogloss, 2023 In this study, we propose a comparative analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP) and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), taking into consideration the phenomenon named Double Pronominalization, in ...
Heloisa Salles +1 more
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