The Diachrony of Ditransitives /

The Diachrony of Ditransitives / / ed. by Chiara Fedriani, Maria Napoli.

While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Broccias, Cristiano,
Colleman, Timothy,
Dahl, Eystein,
De Cuypere, Ludovic,
Fedriani, Chiara,
Giacalone Ramat, Anna,
Melis, Chantal,
Napoli, Maria,
Prandi, Michele,
Torre, Enrico,
Van Damme, Evi,
Willems, Klaas,
HerausgeberIn:
Fedriani, Chiara,
Napoli, Maria,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 351
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 317 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Part 1: The nature of ditransitive arguments: the contribution of diachrony
  • 1. How do ditransitives change?
  • 2. Roles and grammatical relations in synchrony and diachrony: the case of the indirect object
  • Part 2: Ditransitive verbs and construction alternation
  • 3. The spread of the ad construction in Merovingian Latin: identifying semantic paths in the domain of ditransitives
  • 4. Old Italian ditransitive constructions: between alternation and change
  • 5. The emergence of the dative alternation in Dutch: towards the establishment of a horizontal link
  • 6. Attraction and differentiation in the history of the English dative and benefactive alternations
  • 7. The ditransitive alternation in the history of German: the case of verkaufen (‘sell’)
  • Part 3: Ditransitives between stability and further developments
  • 8. The diachrony of ditransitives in Vedic Sanskrit
  • 9. Passives of ditransitives: the gradual rise of a Recipient passive in Italian
  • 10. ‘Hit’ semantics and physical sensations: on the development of spontaneous event constructions with Spanish dar ‘give’
  • Subject Index

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