Ditransitives In Germanic Languages
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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages
Author | : Eva Zehentner,Melanie Röthlisberger,Timothy Colleman |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027249715 |
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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, 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.
The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish
Author | : Fredrik Valdeson |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2024-06-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004686410 |
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This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years. The key finding is that the use of the so-called double object construction has decreased dramatically in terms of frequency, lexical richness and semantic range. This development is parallelled by a decisive increase in prepositional object constructions. The results are of high relevance to the ongoing debate within construction grammar on constructional productivity and on the nature of horizontal links.
The Diachrony of Ditransitives
Author | : Chiara Fedriani,Maria Napoli |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110701371 |
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While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.
The Ditransitive Alternation in Present Day German
Author | : Hilde De Vaere |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2023-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027252845 |
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The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively annotated data and detailed statistical information, the book also contributes to the theory of language by developing an alternative framework to existing investigations of the alternation. It is shown that the alternation can be accounted for in a comprehensive way by adopting a three-layer approach to meaning and sense based on the work of E. Coseriu and S. Levinson. In this approach, a construction’s language-specific encoded meaning is distinguished both from its conventional (“normal”) uses and its discourse-specific interpretations in particular contexts. The monograph is likely to attract attention from researchers in the fields of German and English linguistics, general and contrastive linguistics as well as linguistic theory.
Verb Second Phenomena in Germanic Languages
Author | : Hubert Haider,Martin Prinzhorn |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110846072 |
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The Diachrony of Ditransitives
Author | : Chiara Fedriani,Maria Napoli |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110701470 |
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While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.
Ditransitives in British English Dialects
Author | : Johanna Gerwin |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110373585 |
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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.
The Role of Semantic Pragmatic and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case
Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal,Shobhana L. Chelliah |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2009-03-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027289926 |
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The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.