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Possession and Spatial Motion in the Acquisition of Ditransitives

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What is the nature of the relation between a verb and its arguments? In this dissertation, I look to evidence from language acquisition for answers. Any theory of ditransitives must explain certain structural asymmetries noted for both double-object (DO) datives (e.g. Alfonso gave Derek the bat) and prepositional datives (Alfonso...

Keyword:

possession, ditransitive, argument structure, dative, spatial, and acquisition

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

Joshua Baird Viau

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/14/2018

Date Modified:

08/14/2018

Date Created:

2007-09-05

Resource Type:

Dissertation