THE DOUBLE OBJECT CONSTRUCTION AND THEMATIZATION/EXTRACTION

On the Double-object Construction

However, while the range of syntactic structures which might be assigned to these sentences is limited, it is by no means obvious what the correct structure is, or even if there is in fact just one. Be this as it may, we will assume here that the the double-object construction is subject to the same constraints as lexical argument structures in general. Using x to symbolize a lexical head, y a ...

Possession and the double object construction

This paper argues that double-object verbs decompose into two heads, an external-argumentselecting CAUSE predicate (vCAUSE) and a prepositional element, PHAVE. Two primary types of argument are presented. First, a consideration of the well-known Oerhle’s generalization effects in English motivate such a decomposition, in combination with a consideration of idioms in ditransitive structures. The...

construction and validation of the translation teacher competency test and the scale of students’ perceptions of translation teachers

the major purpose of this study was to develop the translation teacher competency test (ttct) and examine its construct and predictive validity. the present study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase as well as a quantitative phase. in the first phase of the study, the author attempted to find out the major areas of competency required for an academic translation teacher. the second...

Double Object Construction in Croatian: Arguments Against Appl

Possession and the double object

This paper argues that double-object verbs decompose into two heads, an external-argument-selecting cause predicate (vCAUSE) and a prepositional element, PHAVE. Two primary types of argument are presented. First, a consideration of the well-known Oerhle’s generalization effects in English motivate such a decomposition, in combination with a consideration of idioms in ditransitive structures. Th...