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What makes you move? A minimalist study of object displacement in English Double Object Construction
LingBaW, 2015 The aim of this paper is to analyse the displacement phenomena the direct and indirect objects in the English Double Object Construction (DOC) can undergo. The focus is on the movement out of the DOC to the sentence initial position.
Aleksandra Bartczak-Meszyńska
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Blocking effects in the double object construction
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 In this paper we examine the contrast between the morph-syntactic properties of the two objects in the double object construction and prepositional dative construction.
Ilinca Crăiniceanu, Ileana Baciu
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Which comes first in the double object construction? [PDF]
English Language and Linguistics, 2015 Competition between two methods of marking recipient/beneficiary and theme has figured in much recent research: (1) Jim gave the driver £5. (indirect object before direct object) (2) Jim gave £5 to the driver.
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, D. Denison
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Investigation on Vibration Influence Law of Double-Shield TBM Tunnel Construction
Applied Sciences, 2022 Double-shield TBM is more efficient than shield tunnel construction in hard rock strata. It is widely used in subway tunnel construction, such as in Qingdao and Chongqing in China.
Zelin Lu +4 more
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Evaluating syntactic proposals using minimalist grammars and minimum description length
Journal of Language Modelling, 2023 Many patterns found in natural language syntax have multiple pos-sible explanations or structural descriptions. Even within the cur-rently dominant Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000), it is not uncommon to encounter multiple types of analyses for
Marina Ermolaeva
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French missing object constructions
Glossa, 2022 This paper discusses a class of French à-infinitival constructions, where the missing direct object corresponds to an external argument, either being the antecedent noun in an attributive use, or else a raised argument in a subject or object predication ...
Berthold Crysmann +1 more
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German Passives and English Benefactives
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 In both English benefactive constructions (John baked Mary a cake) and German kriegen/bekommen-passives (Er kriegte einen Stift geschenkt ‘He got a pen gifted’), the theme argument is accusative-marked but has no way of getting structural accusative case.
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Nicholas Twiner
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Double Object Constructions in DSS Hebrew [PDF]
Dead Sea Discoveries, 2020 Abstract In this article an overview is given of the verbal valence patterns of the verb נתן in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Four patterns are distinguished for this verb: 1. נתן + OBJECT to produce; 2. + נתן OBJECT + RECIPIENT to give to; 3. נתן + OBJECT + LOCATION to place; 4. נתן + OBJECT + 2ND OBJECT to make into. All occurrences of the
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A syntactic-semantic analysis of English (non)-dativizable constructions in the production of a set of 2L1 English/Spanish simultaneous bilingual twins [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyzes the syntactico-semantic factors which trigger Dative shift in English dativizable verbs, i.e. those verbs that allow alternation between double object and prepositional complement constructions.
Fernandez Fuertes, Raquel +1 more
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