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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages : Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zehentner, Eva.
- Series:
- Studies in Germanic Linguistics Series
- Studies in Germanic Linguistics Series ; v.7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germanic languages--Transitivity.
- Germanic languages.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (454 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023.
- Summary:
- "This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume's broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages
- The emergence of the English dative alternation as a response to system-wide changes
- The Middle English prepositional dative
- Ditransitive constructions in the history of German
- The double object construction in 19th‑ and 20th‑century Swedish
- Indexicality across the boundaries of syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English
- Exploring variation in the dative alternation across World Englishes
- The dative alternation in German
- Ditransitives in Faroese
- The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch dative alternation
- Giving in English and Norwegian
- Acquiring feature-based ordering preferences in English ditransitives
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- OCLC:
- 1397575015
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