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Swahili ditransitive constructions : A corpus study of active voice ditransitive clauses containing the verb ‘to give’

, 2023
According to Malchukov, Haspelmath and Comrie a ditransitive construction is a construction consisting of a ditransitive verb, an agent argument, a recipient-like argument, and a theme argument.
Kajala, Jukka
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Alternating ditransitives in English: a corpus-based study

, 2009
This thesis is a large-scale investigation of ditransitive constructions and their alternants in English. Typically both constructions involve three participants: participant A transfers an element B to participant C.
Ozon, G.A.
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Data from ‘The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary British Spoken Data’

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2019
The dataset covers the so-called “dative alternation”. The dative alternation (also referred to as the ditransitive or double-object construction) refers to parallel constructions that have broadly similar meaning but different syntax: i.
Gard B. Jenset, Barbara McGillivray
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Selective transfer in the acquisition of english double object constrctions by brazilian learners

Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2013
The present study investigates the acquisition of the English double object constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995) by Brazilian learners. We hypothesize that, due to first language (L1) influences, the prepositional ditransitive construction (John gave a book to
Júlia Vidigal Zara, Fernando Luiz Pereira de Oliveira, Ricardo Augusto de Souza   +2 more
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Argument structure hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions

Glossa
Many varieties of Arabic display a causative construction that adds a causer to the argument structure of the underlying verb. When this verb is transitive, the causative derivative is ditransitive.
Peter Hallman
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The Expression of Three-Participant Events in Movima

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
In Movima (isolate, Amazonian Bolivia), the structure of transitive clauses is determined by referential properties of the core arguments: the encoding of an argument depends on the relative position of its referent on a referential hierarchy. Movima has
Katharina Haude
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Analisi comparativa del doppio accusativo latino

Pallas, 2016
This paper proposes a comparative analysis of some ditransitive verbs in Latin and English which assign accusative case to both internal arguments (theme and recipient). In English, these verbs also display the possibility to realize the recipient as the
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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Assessing the Performance of Pretrained Models for Accurate and Consistent Classification of Argument Structure Constructions

Applied Artificial Intelligence
Despite the growing body of (applied) linguistic research on argument structure constructions (e.g. ditransitive: He gave me a ball), few studies have attempted to develop a classification model for these constructions.
Haerim Hwang
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Case and agreement alignment in ditransitive constructions: A typological gap and its explanation

Bárány A. Case and agreement alignment in ditransitive constructions: A typological gap and its explanation. Language. 2024;100(3):385-432.Abstract: I describe a typological gap in case and agreement alignment in ditransitive constructions.
Bárány, András ; https://orcid.org/
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Why *John can’t contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs

Odisea, 2017
: this article examines the conceptual structure of the main constructions in which Levin’s (1993) contribute verbs appear, viz. the ditransitive and the dative constructions, which often alternate.
Andreea Rosca, Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza   +1 more
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