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Subject‐Object Asymmetries and the Development of Relative Clauses between Late Middle English and Early Modern English

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 308-326, July 2024.
Abstract This paper presents the results of a corpus study on the Wycliffe Bible and the King James Bible, examining the distribution of the pronouns who(m)/which and the complementiser that in relative clauses with a personal referent. The data indicate that the decisive factor in both periods was the function of the gap (subject vs.
Julia Bacskai‐Atkari
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Ditransitive constructions: Towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account?

, 2008
This paper examines the treatment of ditransitive constructions in Role and Reference Grammar and compares it to the perspective on ditransitives that I have developed in earlier work (Haspelmath 2005a, 2007a), as well as to some other formal grammatical
Martin Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Martin, Haspelmath, M.   +2 more
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The ditransitive construction and the double accusative construction as allostructions: Corpus-based analysis and pedagogical applications

Ampersand
The study explores the challenges encountered by Italian-speaking students with the learning of the German ditransitive construction. While prior research has extensively covered theoretical aspects of this construction, limited attention has been paid ...
Sabine De Knop, Fabio Mollica
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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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Passivization of ditransitive verbs from the FSP point of view [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia, 2015
The present paper aims at contributing to the study of passivization of ditransitive complementation from the FSP point of view. English ditransitive verbs generally allow two passive constructions, i.e.
Gabriela Brůhová
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Rules as data

Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.
Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
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The Complex Domain Matrix of Ditransitive Constructions

, 2021
This study focuses on the semantics of ditransitive constructions. Its main aim is to show that the semantics of this type of construction is made up of elements belonging to different conceptual domains. In order to fully analyze the complexity inherent
Huelva-Unternbaumen, Enrique
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Sens et relations de sens dans les grammaires de construction

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2008
Cet article étudie la question du sens et des relations de sens dans le cadre des grammaires de construction (GC), en s’intéressant tout particulièrement à la polysémie des signes grammaticaux.
Jérôme Puckica
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The multiword processing by low‐proficiency Japanese English learners: Meaningfulness and constructions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 672-691, May 2024.
Abstract Recent psycholinguistic research underscores the significance of multiword units in language processing and acquisition, aligning with the Chunk‐and‐Pass framework. In this study, 55 low‐proficiency Japanese English learners and 27 native English speakers undertook a phrasal decision task featuring two trigram types: syntactically and ...
Takumi Kosaka
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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