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The dative arguments in Bulgarian
… semantic properties of arguments marked with a dative clitic in Bulgarian. Contemporary Bulgarian has been claimed to have lost its Case system compared to its previous historical stages. Yet, as the current study demonstrates, the language has systematically utilized a morphological marker in …
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Making choices: modelling the English dative alternation
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Dative arguments and abstract Case in Greek
This thesis investigates the syntax of so-called ‘dative’ arguments in Greek and the role of their abstract Case feature in their licensing, from a generative/minimalist perspective. The main claim of the thesis is that dative arguments of all types originate low, i.e. within the maximal projection …
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The acquisition of verb-particle and dative constructions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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The grammatical status of the English dative alternation.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals
This thesis is concerned with Spanish weak dative pronominals. Similar elements-generally labelled as clitics- in many languages have been focus of much research in Linguistics. The present study, however, abstracts away from classic approaches that had the external form of clitics as their main …
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Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests
… speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs. In Experiment 1, both native speakers of English and Korean learners of English as a second language made grammaticality judgments about dative sentences in English. This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of markedness and …
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Datives at large
… of the syntactic and semantic properties of dative arguments. The main source of data is Spanish, where dative arguments can appear with all types of verbs, and can have a wide range of meanings: goal, possessor, source, experiencer, affected object, causee, location, benefactive, …
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On the dative singular -u ending in monosyllabic strong feminine ō-stem substantives in Old Icelandic: An overview and longitudinal study
The dative singular ending form of monosyllabic strong feminine ō-stem substantives in Modern Icelandic is typically a null, or zero, ending, where there was at a much earlier stage a -u ending. This archaic dative singular -u ending was already on the decline in Old Icelandic but can still be seen …
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Linking verbs to syntax
… Specifically, I focus on the adaptation of dative verbs that adults and children are familiar with (e.g., give, show, throw). In six production experiments and two comprehension experiments, I exposed adults and children to new experiences with familiar dative verbs in dative structures. …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… the acquisition of properties of the dative alternation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by L1 Spanish/L2 English and L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers who are learning Portuguese as a third language (L3). This work contributes to a better understanding of which factors determine …
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Rektionsschwankungen des präpositionalen Kasusgebrauchs. Die Genitiv- und Dativrektion bei Sekundärpräpositionen im diachronen Verlauf
… prepositions mainly govern the genitive or dative, without any semantic difference. In diachronic progression, it can often be observed that the case government shifts from genitive to dative and vice versa. Currently, some secondary prepositions are subject to fluctuations in their case …
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Aspekte des Dativs : Zur Relation zwischen der Dativ-DP und der Ereignisstruktur der Verben in ditransitiven Konstruktionen im Deutschen
… structural licensing and the semantics of the dative-DP in ditransitive constructions in German from a cognitive and construction grammar perspective.While the indirect object in constructions with prototypical ditransitive verbs is said to be a lexically selected argument of the verb, the …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
… taking out a paper vs. taking a paper out), the dative construction (e.g., giving Emma a paper vs. giving a paper to Emma) and the caused-motion construction (e.g., putting the money in Emma’s pocket), which shares its constituent structure with the prepositional dative and its semantics with …
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Altaic evidence for the Japanese and Korean case suffix systems
… Japanese locative tu/du/da and the Old Korean dative-locative *a/*ai/*ahi are compared with the Manchu-Tungus dative-locative-partitive du/da/a, with the Mongolian dative-locative du/da/a, and with the Old Turkic dative-locative-ablative-directive du/da/a. The Old Japanese comitative to and the …
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Reasuntivos y doblado del clitico: En torno a la caracterizacion del termino "Casi-Nativo"
… i vimos en malas condiciones.); and (b) Optional Dative Clitic Doubling (Sally Potter (les) dedico el premio a los tangueros.) versus Obligatory Dative Clitic Doubling (El nino travieso le rompio el jarron a la abuela. ). Three groups of speakers with Spanish as their mother tongue participated in …
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Synthesis and Optical Studies of Organoboron Compounds
… with boron-oxygen and boron-nitrogen dative bondswere recently found to exhibit very large fluorescence Stokes shifts. The large Stokes shifts arehypothesized to arise from cleavage of the boron-donor dative bond in the excited state, via amechanism called bond-cleavage-induced …
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… elements” or non-arguments, so-called Ethical Dative Clitics (Bello 1954, Seco 1962 among others) and Solidarity Clitics (Álvarez, Rosario, X.L. Regueira & H. Monteaguedo 1986) in Spanish and Galician. This research fills an important gap in the existing formal literature on these forms, …
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Onomastic Contact Between Women’s Names in Latin and Greek: Inscriptional Evidence for Paradigms in -e and -a
… nominative -e, accusative -em/-en, genitive -es, dative -e and ablative -e. The second paradigm is formed from an extension in -n- (nominative -e, accusative -enem, genitive -enis, dative -eni, ablative -ene) and the third from an extension in -t- (nominative -e, accusative -etem, genitive -etis, …
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Lexical-syntactic representations in bilingual sentence production
… Finally, we showed that priming effects for dative sentences are modulated by the syntactic preference (verb bias) of the dative verb that is used in the prime. This indicates that the syntactic preferences of verbs is learned and represented in memory.
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