Abstract:AbstractThis paper reports on a corpus study of two ditransitive constructions in Enets (Uralic, Samoyedic): the standard
ditransitive construction and the so-called Destinative construction involving a specific destinative nominal morpheme. We suggest that the mutual distribution of the two competing constructions depends on referential
properties of theme and information structure of the clause. The Destinative construc… Show more
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