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Ditransitives in Germanic languages : synchronic and diachronic aspects /

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"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, Swedis...

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Other Authors: Zehentner, Eva (Editor), Röthlisberger, Melanie (Editor), Colleman, Timothy, 1976- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
Series:Studies in Germanic linguistics (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v, 7.
Subjects:
Germanic languages > Transitivity.
Langues germaniques > Transitivité.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages: new avenues and new challenges / Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman
  • The emergence of the English dative alternation as a response to system-wide changes: an evolutionary game theory approach / Eva Zehentner
  • The Middle English prepositional dative: contact with French / Richard Ingham
  • Ditransitive constructions in the history of German: factors influencing object alignment / Philipp Rauth
  • The double object construction in 19th- and 20th-century Swedish / Frederik Valdeson
  • Indexicality across the boundaries of syntax, semantics and pragmatics: the constructional content of the Danish free indirect object / Peter Juul Nielsen and Lars Heltoft
  • Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English: weighing sociolinguistic factors against language-internal constraints / Johanna Gerwin and Melanie Röthlisberger
  • Exploring variation in the dative alternation across World Englishes / Melanie Röthlisberger
  • The dative alternation in German: structural preferences and verb bias effects / Alina Kholodova and Shanley Allen
  • Ditransitives in Faroese: the distribution of IO/DO and PP / Cherlon Ussery and Hjalmar Petersen
  • The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch dative alternation / Tanguy Dubois
  • Giving in English and Norwegian: a contrastive perspective / Thomas Egan
  • Acquiring feature-based ordering preferences in English ditransitives / Daniel Bürkle.