Double Object Constructions

Emonds, Joseph E.; Whitney, Rosemarie

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“…Sometimes Theme passivization is facilitated by the lightness of the Theme (Doggett 2004). In languages like Swedish, on the other hand, A‐movement (a)symmetries seem to be lexically constrained in the sense that some verbs allow long passives while for other verbs these constructions are marginal at best (Woolford 1993; Emonds & Whitney 2005; see also Holmberg & Platzack 1995) 10 . It is beyond the scope of this paper to provide a typologically comprehensive account for all of these facts, but some discussion for future reference is in order.…”

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A Phase Extension Approach to Double Object Constructions – Evidence from Modern Greek*

Kupula

2011

Studia Linguistica

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This article examines A-movement (a)symmetries in the double object construction in Modern Greek. Two types of double object constructions are attested in this language, the ''dative construction'' and the ''double accusative construction''. These constructions, which are analysed as low applicatives, differ with regard to (i) the Case marking of the Goal, (ii) A-movement properties of Themes and (iii) formation of adjectival passives with Goal externalisation. The article shows that (i)-(iii) are interrelated phenomena in Greek and that they can be accounted for by exploiting recent findings on phases, namely phase extension whereby a phase expands as a result of movement of the phase head. The phase extension approach to double object constructions illustrates that head movement interacts with locality as a narrow syntactic operation and that locality-violating passives can be licensed without phase EPP-features or multiple Specifiers. The article also dwells on the controversial issue concerning the quirky Subject status of fronted dative Goals in Greek and shows that the phase extension approach, in which dative clitics are analysed as phonetic realizations of applicative heads, supports the quirky Subject status of dative Goals.

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A Phase Extension Approach to Double Object Constructions – Evidence from Modern Greek*

Kupula

2011

Studia Linguistica

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“…Emonds & Whitney (2006) note that there is considerable crosslinguistic and crossidiolectal variation in the strength of the ARSIO. They cite Den Dikken (1995) who observes that the ARSIO is violable in English with short A' extraction for some speakers.…”

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Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives

Paul

Whitman

2010

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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We argue that applicative heads always appear above the lexical VP, regardless of the semantics of the construction. Thematic Applicatives select a nominal expression and a VP as argument, parallel to Pylkkänen's (2008) "high" applicatives. The applied argument is merged in Spec, ApplP and receives a role such as beneficiary. Raising Applicatives appear in the same position above the lexical VP, but do not select an underlying nominal argument. Instead, they attract a goal DP from within the ditransitive VP to their specifier. This pattern captures the properties of a theme-goal ditransitive construction (Pylkkänen's "low" applicative). We show that the Mandarin double object construction 'Verb gěi IO DO' instantiates a raising applicative, where gěi realizes Appl 0 .We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for very detailed and insightful comments. We are also grateful to Victor Junnan Pan, Zhitang Yang-Drocourt, and Yuan Huahung for discussion of the Mandarin data.

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Introduction to Binding Theory

Poole¹

2011

Syntactic Theory

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Double Object Constructions

Cited by 16 publications

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A Phase Extension Approach to Double Object Constructions – Evidence from Modern Greek*

A Phase Extension Approach to Double Object Constructions – Evidence from Modern Greek*

Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives

Introduction to Binding Theory

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