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A Diachronic Perspective on the English Preposition TO and the Romanian Preposition LA
Linguaculture, 2021 The paper discusses the different evolution of the English preposition (P) to and the Romanian P la “at/to” which can be observed in the history of English and Romanian ditransitives.
Tania Zamfir
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Ditransitive Constructions in Laz
Linguistic Discovery, 2011 This paper examines ditransitives in ...
René Lacroix
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Malay and Cebuano ditransitives: A minimalist perspective
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 In the tradition of the generative school of thought in linguistics, the Universal Grammar (UG) is in the forefront in shifting linguistics from behavioral to cognitive science making linguistics an integral part of the study of cognition (Bocckx 2008:6-
Rodney C. Jubilado +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The present pilot study investigated potential effects of early and late child bilingualism in highly proficient adult bilinguals. It has been shown that some early second language (eL2) speakers stagnate when it comes to complex linguistic phenomena and
Anna-Lena Scherger +4 more
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Grammatical relations in Ikalanga
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Joyce T. Mathangwane, E. Kweku Osam
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Indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic: A typological sketch
Studies in African Linguistics, 2013 The aim of the present study is to propose, for the first time, a typology of the forms and functions related to the indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic languages.
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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The abscence of the linker in double object constructions in Nuu
Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 The linker in Nluu appears before various types of nominal expressions, but not before the second object in a double object construction. Linkers in Khoisan languages such as +Hoan and Jul'hoansi do appear in this position. I will show that this property
Chris Collins
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Review of Alina Tigău. 2020. Experimental Insights into the Syntax of Romanian Ditransitives. [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2020 ---
Adina Camelia Bleotu
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Dative-nominative alterations in Germanic languages. A generative prespective
Lingue e Linguaggi, 2013 This paper focuses on the conditions under which dative–nominative alternations take place, mainly within the Germanic family, with a view to illuminate the nature of dative case cross-linguistically.
A. Alexiadou +2 more
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Ditransitive Verbs and the Ditransitive Construction: A Diachronic Perspective [PDF]
Zeitschrift für 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 ...
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