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The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 86-108, March 2024.Abstract Multifactorial studies of the be:get‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints ...
Marianne Hundt +2 more
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Behavioral SciencesLittle research has studied verb inflection and argument structure complexity effects in teenagers with developmental language disorders (DLDs). However, verb production and comprehension deficits that characterize younger children with DLD might persist
Marie Pourquié +3 more
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Split topicalization as remnant movement: the case of Jordanian Arabic
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis paper empirically and theoretically investigates the syntax of split topicalization in Jordanian Arabic, a previously undiscovered phenomenon. The results of a large-scale acceptability judgment task (n = 463) reveal that Jordanian Arabic displays ...
Eman Al Khalaf
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Dependent Case for Mongolian: Unifying accusative subjects
GlossaIn Modern Mongolian, the subjects of many subordinate clauses, both complements and adjuncts, may be marked with the accusative case (von Heusinger, Klein & Guntsetseg 2011; Guntsetseg 2016). This study argues that the full empirical picture of these
Sable Andrew Peters
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Argument Marking in Ditransitive Alignment Types
Linguistic Discovery, 2005 This paper discusses the patterns of case-marking/adpositional marking and indexing of ditransitive clauses in the world's languages, i.e. clauses with an Agent, a Recipient and a Theme argument. It distinguishes three major alignment types, indirective, secundative, and neutral, corresponding to accusative, ergative and neutral in monotransitive ...
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Ditransitive passive in Pāini [PDF]
Indo-Iranian Journal, 1991 1.1. The terms sakarmaka "a verb with an object, transitive" and akarmaka "a verb without an object, intransitive" appear in PS.nini's grammar. While the later commentaries do use the term dvikarmaka "ditransitive verb", the term does not itself appear in PS.nini's grammar. One can derive constructions with two or more objects in the case of causatives,
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More than meets the eye: Toward a reassessment of Old English double accusatives
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)This article offers a corpus-based update of the Accusative-Accusative construction as part of a much-needed reanalysis of Old English double-object complementation.
Juan G. Vázquez González
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Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
Nordic Journal of African StudiesThis study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction (APC) configurations, with the former having two NPs as its non-subject arguments, and the latter having
Bebwa Isingoma, Peace Yikiru
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