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Recording and explaining : exploring the German ditransitive alternation [PDF]

, 2019
In this discussion note, we offer some thoughts on the relation between explanation and the extensive recording of data from a ‘moderate’ functional point of view.
De Cuypere, Ludovic, De Vaere, Hilde, Willems, Klaas   +2 more
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The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian foreign language learners [PDF]

, 2014
Ditransitive verbs include a “recipient” and a “theme” argument (in addition to the subject). The choice of putting one argument before the other (i.e., either recipient-theme, or theme-recipient) is associated with multiple discourse-pragmatic factors ...
Baten, Kristof, De Coster, Evelyn, De Cuypere, Ludovic   +2 more
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A COGNITIVE STUDY ON THE DIRECTION OF TRANSFER IN DITRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS ACROSS FOUR LANGUAGES [PDF]

Studii de gramatică contrastivă
Ditransitive constructions, a linguistic phenomenon universally observed, express the concept of transfer. This study investigates the direction of transfer in ditransitive constructions across Chinese, English, German, and Japanese, aiming to identify
Yawen Zhong
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On the perspectivization of a recipient role - cross-linguistic results from a speech production experiment on GET-passives in German, Dutch and Luxembourgish [PDF]

, 2010
The focus of this paper is the perspectivization of thematic roles generally and the recipient role specifically. Whereas perspective is defined here as the representation of something for someone from a given position (Sandig 1996: 37 ...
Lenz, Alexandra N.
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Expressing the GIVE event in Papuan languages: A preliminary survey

, 2013
The linguistic expression of the GIVE event is investigated in a sample of 72 Papuan languages, 33 belonging to the Trans New Guinea family, 39 of various non-TNG lineages.
Reesink, G.
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]

, 2017
It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna, Danesi, Serena, Johnson, Cynthia A   +2 more
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Emerging networks: the role of horizontal relations in the acquisition of the German ditransitive construction

Cognitive Linguistics
In 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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Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)

Open Linguistics, 2022
This article proposes a fine-grained semantic analysis of similative and comparative constructions within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).
Giomi Riccardo
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Double Object Constructions in Afro-Brazilian Portuguese

Isogloss, 2023
During the colonial period (16th - 19th centuries), Brazil was a multilingual country, home to Portuguese, Indigenous peoples, and Africans. Portuguese was learned as a second language by the Africans brought to Brazil by the slave trade, mainly under ...
Isis JULIANA FIGUEIREDO DE BARROS, Ana Regina Vaz Calindro   +1 more
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Variation in Three-Participant Constructions in Eastern Mansi; pp. 120-130 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2012
In Eastern Mansi, there are two different active constructions and one passive construction used for expressing ditransitive action. The active constructions are the so called PO/SO construction and the so called DO/IO construction (see Dryer 1986). Also
Susanna Virtanen
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