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Intransitive, Transitive, and Ditransitive Verbs

Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung   +2 more
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A Diachronic Study of Structure Patterns of Ditransitive Verbs

2020
This paper mainly studies English dative alternation from a diachronic point of view. As a verb of caused-possession, the typical ditransitive verb give is contrasted with send and tell in respect of their different structural biases diachronically (12th–19th centuries).
Guoyan Lyu, Yanmei Gao
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Ditransitive verbs in Latin: A typological approach

Journal of Latin Linguistics, 2018
AbstractThis paper aims to describe the behavior of Latin verbs with three arguments basically encoding the transfer of aThemefrom anAgentto aRecipient: these verbs, labelled asditransitiveswithin the framework of linguistic typology, will be analyzed here on the basis of this theoretical approach.
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A study of ditransitive verbs in archaic Chinese

2014
The thesis examines the use of the GIVE verbs yǔ 與, cì 賜 and xiàn 獻 and the SAY verbs yù 語, yán 言, wèn 問 and gào 告 in Archaic Chinese, focusing particularly on the issue of why yú 於 was used with the recipient in some cases but not in the others. The verbs are studied across different texts composed between 11th century B.C. and 2nd century B.C.
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An Aspectual Analysis of Ditransitive Verbs of Caused Possession in English

Journal of Semantics, 2010
In this article I examine ditransitive verbs that can describe caused possession (e.g. give, throw, send) by looking at their lexical aspectual properties, a methodology that has proved fruitful for the exploration of (in)transitive verbs. I show that as a whole these ditransitives share a number of aspectual properties in common with (in)transitive ...
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