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Groefsema, Marjolein – Language Sciences, 2001
Challenges assumptions regarding dative alternation and proposes an account in terms of one general constraint of what makes a verb a possible verb, which operates over verb-specific conceptual information. Central to the proposal is the assumption that the different forms of dative verbs do not only encode different conceptual representations of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Schemata (Cognition)