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Argument structure hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions
GlossaMany varieties of Arabic display a causative construction that adds a causer to the argument structure of the underlying verb. When this verb is transitive, the causative derivative is ditransitive.
Peter Hallman
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Assigning meaning to light verbs in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 Light verb constructions (e.g., give a kiss to somebody) syntactically reflect typical ditransitive structures (e.g., give a violin to somebody) yet it is not clear whether these two structures thematically similar as well.
Duygu ÖZGE +2 more
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Complementation of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive
, 2021 The subject of the present thesis is an analysis of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive in the ditransitive/double-object constructions, i.e., either the S-V-Oi-Od or S-V-O-Oprep argument structure, in which both objects are explicitly expressed ...
Hlaváčková, Veronika
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Verbs of Negative Transfer in Croatian: Syntactic Frames and Semantic Unity
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2014 This paper examines the syntactic and semantic features of a verb class of Croatian ditransitive verbs termed verbs of negative transfer. With verbs of negative transfer, the transfer of an item is performed in the opposite direction of the transfer ...
Jurica Polančec
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On regression modeling in varieties research
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 57-77, March-June 2025.Abstract One particularly prominent methodological development in linguistics is what has been termed the “quantitative turn”: Not only are more and more studies using statistical tools to explore data and to test hypotheses, the complexity of the statistical methods employed is growing as well.
Stefan Th. Gries
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'Give' Constructions in the Papuan Languages of Timor-Alor-Pantar
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper describes three-participant ‘give’ constructions in ten Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) family. Generally lacking a class of simple ditransitive root verbs, TAP languages express ‘give’ events by means ...
Marian Klamer, Antionette Schapper
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Word order in French: the role of animacy
Glossa, 2021 A major goal of the quantitative study of syntax has been to identify factors that have predictive power on speaker choices in the face of word-order or valence alternations (e.g. Arnold et al. 2000; Bresnan et al.
Anne Abeillé +3 more
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Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2018 The principal aim of this essay is to analyse ditransitive auxiliary verbs in indicative and non-indicative periphrasis in High-Navarrese dialect, in texts written before 1750.
Urtzi Reguero Ugarte
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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