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Ditransitive Verbs and the Ditransitive Construction: A Diachronic Perspective [PDF]

Zeitschrift Fur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, 2011
This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs attested in the double object argument structure pattern in a corpus of 18th-century British ...
Timothy Colleman
exaly   +5 more sources

Acquisition of argument structures and ditransitive verbs: Evidence from an elliptical language

Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2023
In first language acquisition, verbs can be regarded as the word types which are more challenging to comprehend and interpret due to their cognitive and linguistic constraints (Sofu & Ertekin Sucak, 2018).
Burcu Turhan
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The roots of ditransitive verbs of caused possession [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract Chapter 3 examines English ditransitive verbs, which show the dative alternation between indirect object and to frames, each supposedly reflecting a different template for a single manner-describing root. It shows that these two templates are semantically highly underspecified, and it is the root that fleshes out many of the ...
John Beavers
exaly   +2 more sources

Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Word orders with ditransitive verbs

Acta Academica, 2001
From text: The word order of any sentence with a ditransitive verb will of necessity differ materially from word orders where the V is transitive or intransitive, due to the fact that the ditransitive verb has a twofold object.
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Why *John can’t contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs [PDF]

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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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 ...
FABIO MOLLICA
exaly   +3 more sources

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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The development of and factors influencing double object construction preference of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia, 2022
The paper investigates the double object constructions, viz. SVOi Od and SVOOprep clause patterns, of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive. The syntactic and semantic specificity of the two verbs in question may indicate a possible future extinction ...
Veronika Hlaváčková , Gabriela Brůhová   +1 more
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Ditransitive Construction in English, Hungarian, Turkish, and Indonesian Language

Loquen, 2021
: Every language shows a different way of expressing ditransitive construction. Thus, the present study aims to investigate and compare the important elements exhibit in the languages under discussion in constructing ditransitive sentences.
Hyunisa Rahmanadia
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Ditransitive Constructions in Zaza Language

Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2021
Languages group verbs in different ways. Because of the ergative feature of Zazaki, it plays a big role whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
İlyas Arslan
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