Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5809337
AutoresMartin Haspelmath (0000-0003-2100-8493, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume14
Fascículo1
Páginas79-102
Data de publicação2007-03-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFunctions of Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0929-998X • E-ISSN: 1569-9765
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/fol.14.1.06has
OpenAlexW2073055096
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31
Referências citadas24

This paper argues that language-particular restrictions on ditransitive constructions are best understood as instantiations of easily falsifiable implicational universals that can be explained functionally, rather than as falling out from a restrictive formal metalanguage. Well-known restrictions on ditransitives in English (* She gave Kim it ) and French (* Elle donna Kim le livre ) are shown to be instantiations of inverse patterns that are completely parallel to inverse patterns in monotransitive constructions. Moreover, ditransitive constructions are parallel to monotransitives in that they exhibit differential recipient marking and differential theme marking, analogous to differential object and subject marking

Dative case · Falsifiability · Problem of universals · Theme (computing · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation