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Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. [PDF]
, 2007 In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to ...
Bakker, Dik, Siewierska, Anna
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Developmental Science, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic knowledge, with a focus on the Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive construction in Korean. We develop various neural‐network models and measure their classification performance on the test stimuli used in a behavioural ...
Gyu‐Ho Shin, Seongmin Mun
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Entre passif et anticausatif : étude des formes itCaCaC en arabe du Caire
Lidil, 2021 This study deals with the interpretations received by verbs formed on the t‑I pattern in Cairo Arabic, passive and anticausative interpretations. First, we note on the one hand that verbs of t‑I form characterized by an inherent transitivity receive only
Julie Haslé
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The semantics of ditransitive construction in a diachronic perspective
Gragoatá, 2020 This paper focuses on the ditransitive construction of Brazilian Portuguese, aiming at examining its semantic evolution. To this end, it compares manifestations of this construction in the 18th and 20th centuries in order to investigate whether there has
Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha
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Dative alternation in Indian English: a corpus-based study [PDF]
, 2013 The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction (I give my sister a book) vs. the to-dative construction (I give a book to my sister).
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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Mapping Grammatical Relations of English Verbs
Humanis, 2022 This study entitled Mapping Grammatical Relations of English Verbs, concerns on numbers of arguments that a verb could assign and how an argument is syntactically motivated in clauses of which the mood is declarative.
Putu Owen Purusa Arta +2 more
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]
, 2015 Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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Latin verbs with double accusative and their passivization
Pallas, 2016 The goal of this paper is to re-examine the behaviour of Latin verbs taking double accusative from the perspective of functional-typological research on the so-called “ditransitive constructions”.
Maria Napoli
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