Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect

Siewierska, Anna; Hollmann, Willem B.

doi:10.1075/slcs.83.06sie

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“…The scores shown are on a 0-100 scale with 100 as the maximally natural score and 0 as the maximally unnatural score. The data are consistent with reports in previous literature that speakers find theme-goal ditransitives better with pronominal objects than full DP objects (Bissell-Doggett, 2004;Siewierska and Hollmann, 2007). Wilcoxon signed-rank tests for paired samples revealed significant differences between all four sentence types except between DP-DP (She gave it me) DP-pro (She gave it the boy) types.…”

Section: The Structure Of Theme-goal Ditransitivessupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Speakers of North eastern English dialects and Scots typically do not accept theme-goal ditransitives. Our results and previous literature suggest that all speakers who accept theme-goal ditransitives also accept both DOCs and prepositional datives (Siewierska and Hollmann, 2007;Hughes et al, 2006;Kirk, 1985;Orton et al, 1978).…”

Section: The Structure Of Theme-goal Ditransitivessupporting

confidence: 76%

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Theme–goal ditransitives and theme passivisation in British English dialects

Haddican

2010

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Section: The Structure Of Theme-goal Ditransitivessupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: The Structure Of Theme-goal Ditransitivessupporting

confidence: 76%

Theme–goal ditransitives and theme passivisation in British English dialects

Haddican

2010

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“…The different word orders in (1e) correspond to different regional varieties of British English (see Siewierska and Hollmann 2007), but I will not differentiate between them here. I have nothing to say about word order in this article.…”

Section: Ditransitive Pronoun-full Np Inversesmentioning

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Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment

Haspelmath

2007

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This paper argues that language-particular restrictions on ditransitive constructions are best understood as instantiations of easily falsifiable implicational universals that can be explained functionally, rather than as falling out from a restrictive formal metalanguage. Well-known restrictions on ditransitives in English (*She gave Kim it) and French (*Elle donna Kim le livre) are shown to be instantiations of inverse patterns that are completely parallel to inverse patterns in monotransitive constructions. Moreover, ditransitive constructions are parallel to monotransitives in that they exhibit differential recipient marking and differential theme marking, analogous to differential object and subject marking.

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“…Indeed, it is only in recent years that intralingual variation and change in the formal and semantic make-up of constructions has come to the fore as constituting a crucial and fruitful area of investigation in its own right. Relevant work on English includes Wulff, Stefanowitsch and Gries (2007) on the distinct sets of verbs most typically associated with the into-causative in British versus American English, Mukherjee and Hoffmann's (2006) study of the wider lexical possibilities of the DOC in Indian English (as compared to Inner Circle varieties), Siewierska & Hollmann (2007) on word order variation in the DOC in varieties of British English, etc., as well as the papers in this special issue. Several of the papers in volumes such as Leino (2008), Bergs and Diewald (2009) and Geeraerts, Kristiansen and Peirsman (2010) explore similar issues of constructional variation and change in other languages.…”

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Constructional semantics on the move: On semantic specialization in the English double object construction

Colleman

Clerck

2011

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In this article we tackle the issue of diachronic variation in constructional semantics through an exploration of the (recent) semantic history of the well-established English ditransitive or double object argument structure construction. Starting from the assumption that schematic syntactic patterns are not fundamentally different from lexical items, we will show that -similar to the diachronic semantic development of lexemes -the semantics of argument structure constructions in general and that of double object constructions in particular, is vulnerable to semasiological shifts as well. More specifically, the analysis, which compares data from 18 th -century Late Modern English with presentday English, shows that the double object construction's semantic evolution presents a case of specialization, in which the construction has come to be associated with a significantly narrower range of meanings. It will further be argued that such patterns of semantic change are best captured in a model of argument structure semantics which discriminates between central and less-central or prototypical and non-prototypical uses.

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Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect

Cited by 53 publications

References 29 publications

Theme–goal ditransitives and theme passivisation in British English dialects

Theme–goal ditransitives and theme passivisation in British English dialects

Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment

Constructional semantics on the move: On semantic specialization in the English double object construction

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