THE COMBINABILITY OF MONOTRANSITIVE AND DITRANSITIVE VERBS
, 2022 Transitive verbs are English verbs that take one or more objects. Monotransitive verbs take only a direct object. Ditransitive verbs take two objects, either a direct object and an indirect object or a direct object and an object complement.
Samieva Lobar Nasriddin Qizi, +1 more
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Ditransitive Verbs: An English Print Media based Comparison of Pakistani English and British English
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2018 The present study highlights the ditransitive complementation between Pakistani English (PE) and British English (BE). The ditransitive verb complementation allows double objects in a sentence i.e. indirect object and direct object.
Asadullah Balouch
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It Takes Two to Kiss, but Does it Take Three to Give a Kiss? Categorization Based on Thematic Roles [PDF]
, 2013 Language is characterised by broad and predictable mappings between meaning and syntactic form. Transitive sentences typically encode two-participant events while ditransitives typically encode three-participant events. Light-verb constructions, however,
Snedeker, Jesse, Wittenberg, Eva
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VERB-INDIRECT OBJECT-DIRECT OBJECT and VERB-DIRECT OBJECT-INDIRECT OBJECT
IsoglossThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the study of constituent order in ditransitive constructions by means of a variationist analysis based on spoken Spanish from Madrid. We analyze the variable position of objects in ditransitive clauses.
Javier Rivas
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The syntactic status of objects in Mòòré ditransitive constructions [PDF]
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Pacchiarotti, Sara
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The Effects of Referential Factors in Mojeno Trinitario Derived and Non-Derived Ditransitive Verbs
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper investigates the effects of referential factors (more specifically the person hierarchy) in non-derived and derived three-participant constructions of Mojeno Trinitario, an Arawak language of Bolivia. The basic effect of referential properties
Françoise Rose
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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg +2 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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Ditransitive Verbs: An English Print Media based Comparison of Pakistani English and British English
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2019 The present study highlights the ditransitive complementation between Pakistani English (PE) and British English (BE). The ditransitive verb complementation allows double objects in a sentence i.e. indirect object and direct object.
Asadullah Baloch, Farida Panhwar, Dr
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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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