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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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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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Review of Alina Tigău. 2020. Experimental Insights into the Syntax of Romanian Ditransitives. [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2020
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Adina Camelia Bleotu
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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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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, E. Anagnostopoulou, C. Sevdali   +2 more
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Explainability of neural networks for child language: Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of Korean active transitive construction

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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Ditransitive Constructions in Laz

Linguistic Discovery, 2011
This paper examines ditransitives in ...
René Lacroix
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Eliminating Ditransitives [PDF]

, 2012
We discuss how higher arity verbs such as give or promise can be treated in an algebraic framework that admits only unary and binary relations and does not rely on event variables.
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OBJECT INSERTION IN OLD ENGLISH VERBS OF THROWING: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS [PDF]

English Studies at NBU
This study demonstrates for the first time that ballistic motion is part of Old English ditransitives, functioning in the Nominative-Accusative-Dative construction.
Juan Gabriel Vázquez-González
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On the distribution of scope ambiguities in Polish

Glossa, 2022
Polish, an SVO language with relatively free constituent order, has a scope extending mechanism of quantifier raising that shows remarkable similarities to quantifier raising in English.
Dagmara Grabska, Klaus Abels
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