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The lexical boost effect is stronger in main clauses than in subordinate clauses
Frontiers in Language SciencesStructural priming effects are stronger if there is lexical overlap between prime and target, the so-called lexical boost effect to structural priming. While abstract structural priming is long-lasting and seems to reflect implicit learning, the lexical ...
Rianne van Lieburg, Sarah Bernolet
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A cross dialectal view of the Arabic dative alternation [PDF]
, 2014 This paper is concerned with the syntax of ditransitive verbs in Arabic.We concentrate on the vernaculars, focussing in particular on three geographically spread dialects: Egyptian Cairene Arabic, the dominant vernacular in Egypt, Hijazi Arabic, spoken ...
Abdel-Massih E. +54 more
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Updating Old English Dative–Genitives: A Diachronic Construction Grammar Account
LanguagesThis article conducts a corpus linguistics analysis of the dative–genitive subconstruction within the broader context of Old English double object complementation. The ditransitive construction in Old English has traditionally been perceived as a network
Juan G. Vázquez-González
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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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Predicates of Indonesian and English Simple Sentences [PDF]
, 2017 This paper was developed from a research report presented in The Third Southern Region of Sumatera TEFLIN held by Sriwijaya University in 2014. Comments recieved by the participants of the seminar and following studies done on the topic made it possible ...
Gulö, I. (Ingatan)
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Crossing the Border Historical and Linguistic Divides Among the Bunaq in Central Timor [PDF]
, 2011 The Bunaq are a Papuan language-speaking people straddling the border of Indonesian West Timor and independent East Timor. This paper looks at the history of the Bunaq as a “border“ people in Timor. “Border“ is interpreted here in two ways, as referring
Schapper, A. (Antoinette)
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Double accusative cases in old Persian constructions [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIntroduction The Old Persian language comprises of seven cases, one of which is the accusative case. This case is used in intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs.
Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian +3 more
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Presenting and predicating lower events [PDF]
, 2013 The effects of different forms of predication have been insightfully (and almost exclusively) studied for 'simple' cases of predication, of which the 'presentational sentence' is maybe the paradigm instantiation.
Brandt, Patrick
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'Transitivity harmony' in the Rawang language of Northern Myanmar [PDF]
, 2010 Rawang [...] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people who live in the far north of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys; population unknown, although Ethnologue gives 100 ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Elicited imitation as a window into developmental stages [PDF]
, 2019 In the second language acquisition literature, data of naturally occurring language use are considered the most ideal data to make statements about second-language (L2) development.
Baten, Kristof, Cornillie, Frederik
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