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Argument structure change, reanalysis and lexicalization: Grammaticalization of transitive verbs into ditransitive verbs in Chinese, Japanese and English

2012
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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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Two types of (apparently) ditransitive light verb constructions

2010
An analysis of Spanish ditransitive constructions with light verb dar reveals that despite surface similarity these constructions belong to two groups corresponding to distinct argument structures. While expressions like dar permiso/ánimo ‘give permission/encouragement’ correspond to double-object constructions, experiencer constructions like dar miedo/
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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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Verb complementation in South Asian English(es): The range and frequency of “new” ditransitives

2013
Resorting to the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus comprising acrolectal English language data from Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the present paper investigates verb complementation in the six respective South Asian varieties of English.
Christopher Koch, Tobias Bernaisch
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OE Ditransitive Verbs of the NP + PP type: Visser’s Typology Revisited

2023
The paper is devoted to Old English prepositional ditransitive verbs of the NP+PP type and aims at re-examining Visser’s (1963-73) typology of OE ditransitives. It is shown that Visser’s classification is insufficient as it recognises only two types of NP+PP ditransitives, namely ACC+PP and DAT+PP, while OE data exhibit more than two variants of the NP+
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English Ditransitive Verbs

2005
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Ditransitive goal verbs in Vietnamese

2016
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Ditransitives and Verbs of Buying and Selling

2020
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The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs

1995
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