Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Download or read book Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective written by Agnes Korn and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not quite explored yet. The contributions in this volume address a variety of languages, provide rich new data on the distribution of ditransitive constructions in lesser-researched languages, and substantiate the findings with corpus data. Recurrent themes in the present collection include the factors underlying the choice of construction in the ditransitive alternation, the most important of which are lexical choices, information structure and discourse prominence of theme and recipient argument.