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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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Cross‐clausal scrambling and subject case in Balkar: On multiple specifiers and the locality of overt and covert movement

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.
Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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Ditransitive argument structure constructions in FLT

, 2022
Construction Grammar (CxG) has established itself as a fruitful descriptive model not only for theoretical studies but also for applied areas such as foreign language learning (FLL) and teaching (FLT) (see e.g.
Mollica, Fabio, De Knop, Sabine
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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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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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The syntactic status of objects in Mòòré ditransitive constructions

, 2015
This paper offers a structural description of the overt and covert properties of objects in Mooré (Gur, Burkina Faso) ditransitive constructions, along with a list of verbs which can be classified as ditransitive in this language on the basis of specific
Pacchiarotti, SaraLW210001903513828020027939390000-0003-1360-5060100682D4-F4C8-11E7-A048-ADCA11A95AF2, Pacchiarotti, Sara   +1 more
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Explaining the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint: A usage-based approach

, 2022
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 ...
Haspelmath, Martin
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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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