A Probabilistic and Syntactic Account of Variable Clitic Agreement in Spanish Double Object Constructions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In Spanish clitic-doubling constructions, the clitic should agree in number with its coreferential doubled noun phrase. However, the present corpus analysis with data from 21 Spanish varieties reveals that, under certain structural configurations, number
Gustavo Guajardo
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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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Testing the Interface Hypothesis: Evidence from processing directions of possession transfer in double object constructions by L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English learners. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe Interface Hypothesis postulates that internal interfaces linking domains within the language system are ultimately acquired at a near-native proficiency level in second language (L2) acquisition.
Yuxi Li, Tao Zeng, Ze Liu
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Focus shifts in contextual and lexical cue interactions in GPT models. [PDF]
PLoS ONETransformer-based language models have demonstrated sensitivity to a range of linguistic dependencies, yet it remains unclear how they represent information-structural focus and integrate discourse and lexical focus cues during ellipsis resolution.
Wonil Chung, Keonwoo Koo
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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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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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