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Explaining the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint: A usage-based approach ...
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In this paper, I propose a frequency-based explanation of the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint, a cross-linguistic generalization that can be formulated as follows: “Combinations of bound pronouns with the roles Recipient and Theme are disfavored if the Theme pronoun is first or second person and the Recipient pronoun is third person.” This constraint is well-known from Spanish and other Romance languages: Alicia se lo mostrar . 'Alicia will show it to her.' (3rd theme, 3rd recipient), but * Alicia te lemostrar . '...you to her.' (2nd theme, 3rd recipient). The theoretical literature offers a number of explanations of this constraint (e.g. in terms of structural positions, a clash of positional alignment requirements, or markedness), but none can account for the fact that it is both widely found in the world’s languages, independently of morphosyntactic factors like case-marking peculiarities, and non-universal (some languages are shown to violate the constraint). My own proposal starts out from the ... : Constructions, Vol 1 (2004) ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.24338/cons-376 https://constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view/376
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A comparison of differential adpossessor flagging and differential argument flagging ...
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From community competition to complementarity in general linguistics: The eight complementary why questions ...
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CLDF dataset derived from Haspelmath and Tadmor's "World Loanword Database" from 2009 ...
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