2014
DOI: 10.21248/hpsg.2014.12
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Accessibility and word order: The case of ditransitive constructions in Persian

Abstract: In a most recent corpus study on Persian, Faghiri & Samvelian (2014) found a significant effect of relative length in the ordering preferences between the direct and indirect objects in the preverbal domain corresponding to "long-before-short". They furthermore showed that the position of the direct object mainly depends on its degree of determination, and put into question the broadly accepted dual view based solely on differential object marking. In this paper, we provide experimental evidence in support… Show more

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“…Hoffman 1995, 13;Lee 1996, 2;Dum-Tragut 2009;Skjaervø 2009, 94, sct. 5.1;Dryer 2013;Haig and Khan 2019;Bulut 2022, Faghiri et al 2022)) and right-branching languages (i.e., the finite verb appears in an earlier position as "predicatesubject-object", for instance, Semitic (cf. Lipi ński 2001, 500; Haig and Khan 2019, 21)).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hoffman 1995, 13;Lee 1996, 2;Dum-Tragut 2009;Skjaervø 2009, 94, sct. 5.1;Dryer 2013;Haig and Khan 2019;Bulut 2022, Faghiri et al 2022)) and right-branching languages (i.e., the finite verb appears in an earlier position as "predicatesubject-object", for instance, Semitic (cf. Lipi ński 2001, 500; Haig and Khan 2019, 21)).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%