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Authors: Johanna Gerwin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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 variab
Ditransitive structures : the English preposition TO and the Romanian preposition LA
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Authors: Tania MORARU-ZAMFIR
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This book examines the syntactic properties of the English preposition to and the Romanian preposition la ”at/to” within ditransitive structures. Being a st
Ditransitives in Germanic Languages
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Authors: Eva Zehentner
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, th
The Diachrony of Ditransitives
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Authors: Chiara Fedriani
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-26 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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 proc
Southern English Varieties Then and Now
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Laura Wright
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part o