Case assignment in double object constructions [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1997 This paper analyzes how case assignment takes place in double object constructions in English. It has been claimed in the literature that case could be either structural or inherent.
Vázquez Iglesias, Elisa
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020 Double object construction (DOC) seems to be attested across languages and thus has received much attention among linguists since eighties. It has been attested in literature that passivization patterns in double object/applicative constructions are of ...
Fawwaz An-Nashef
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Double Object Constructions in Afro-Brazilian Portuguese
Isogloss, 2023 During the colonial period (16th - 19th centuries), Brazil was a multilingual country, home to Portuguese, Indigenous peoples, and Africans. Portuguese was learned as a second language by the Africans brought to Brazil by the slave trade, mainly under ...
Isis JULIANA FIGUEIREDO DE BARROS +1 more
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Selective transfer in the acquisition of English double object constructions by Brazilian learners
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2013 The present study investigates the acquisition of the English double object constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995) by Brazilian learners. We hypothesize that, due to first language (L1) influences, the prepositional ditransitive construction (John gave a book to
Júlia Vidigal Zara +2 more
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In the double object construction [PDF]
Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2000 Etude des complements d'attribution, en anglais, dans le cadre de la theorie du liage et du gouvernement. L'auteur montre qu'on peut etablir un parallele entre ce complement et la transformation passive, et discute la structure de la complementation a l'interieur du ...
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Persian Double Object Constructions and Ditransitive Constructions within Distributed Morphology [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 The aim of this paper is to study dative and locative alternations in Persian based on Wood & Marantz (2017) within Distributed Morphology. We attempt to investigate the extent to which argument structure alternation can be reduced to the syntactic and ...
Vida Sadrolmamaleki, Mazdak Anushe
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The development of and factors influencing double object construction preference of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2022 The paper investigates the double object constructions, viz. SVOi Od and SVOOprep clause patterns, of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive. The syntactic and semantic specificity of the two verbs in question may indicate a possible future extinction ...
Veronika Hlaváčková +1 more
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Are there biological gender differences at the early stages of first language acquisition when producing double object constructions and to/for-datives? [PDF]
, 2023 Producción CientíficaThis study examines whether biological gender differences appear in the early stages of acquisition in the case of English dative alternation (DA) structures (double object constructions (DOCs) and to/for-datives).
Fernández Fuertes, Raquel +1 more
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Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic
Linguistics, 2022 This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic.
Hallman Peter, Al-Balushi Rashid
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Antisymmetry and word order in double object constructions in Zarma
Linguistik Online, 2020 Double Object Construction in Zarma sometimes allows alternations in the order of its internal arguments and the order in some cases may also be fixed.
Waheed Ayisa Jayeola
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