Ditransitives in British English Dialects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ditransitives in British English Dialects write by Johanna Gerwin. This book was released on 2014-09-23. Ditransitives in British English Dialects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
Ditransitives in British English Dialects
Ditransitives in British English Dialects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ditransitives in British English Dialects write by Johanna Gerwin. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Ditransitives in British English Dialects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
Ditransitives in Germanic Languages
Ditransitives in Germanic Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ditransitives in Germanic Languages write by Eva Zehentner. This book was released on 2023-08-15. Ditransitives in Germanic Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.
English Ditransitive Verbs
English Ditransitive Verbs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Ditransitive Verbs write by Joybrato Mukherjee. This book was released on 2016-08-29. English Ditransitive Verbs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present book offers fresh insights into the description of ditransitive verbs and their complementation in present-day English. In the theory-oriented first part, a pluralist framework is developed on the basis of previous research that integrates ditransitive verbs as lexical items with both the entirety of their complementation patterns and the cognitive and semantic aspects of ditransitivity. This approach is combined with modern corpus-linguistic methodology in the present study, which draws on an exhaustive semi-automatic analysis of all patterns of ditransitive verbs in the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) and also takes into account selected data from the British National Corpus (BNC). In the second part of the study, the complementation of ditransitive verbs (e.g. give, send) is analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. Special emphasis is placed here on the identification of significant principles of pattern selection, i.e. factors that lead language users to prefer specific patterns over other patterns in given contexts (e.g. weight, focus, pattern flow in text, lexical constraints). In the last part, some general aspects of a network-like, usage-based model of ditransitive verbs, their patterns and the relevant principles of pattern selection are sketched out, thus bridging the gap between the performance-related description of language use and a competence-related model of language cognition.
Ditransitive structures : the English preposition TO and the Romanian preposition LA
Ditransitive structures : the English preposition TO and the Romanian preposition LA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ditransitive structures : the English preposition TO and the Romanian preposition LA write by Tania MORARU-ZAMFIR. This book was released on 2023-01-01. Ditransitive structures : the English preposition TO and the Romanian preposition LA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the syntactic properties of the English preposition to and the Romanian preposition la ”at/to” within ditransitive structures. Being a study of comparative syntax from a generative perspective, it aims at bringing into discussion the properties of these two functional prepositions, in both English and Romanian. The comparative approach shows that the English to is a functional preposition, fully predictable from the structure of the verb which can be deleted. To is a case marker and the dative arguments introduced by this preposition are DPs. By way of contrast, Romanian la has shifted from a case marker to a [Person] marker. La has a double status, as follows: it has a functional status only when the Dat argument, analysed as DP can be doubled by the clitic, where la is a [Person] marker. In the absence of the clitic, la-phrases are interpreted as PPs and la will be attributed a lexical status. Thus, unlike the functional to, la is both (a) a functional dative marker and (b) a core lexical preposition of the location and movement frames where la assigns accusative case to its object.
