Gradient Grammar: An Effect of Animacy on the Syntax of give in New Zealand and American English

By Joan Bresnan, Jennifer Hay. 2008

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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1. Marilyn Ford
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Citations in the corpus

• Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English (2010, methodology): “2002, Gries 2005, Szmrecsányi 2005), it is possible to predict the choice of dative construction in spoken English with 94% classification accuracy on unseen data (against a baseline of 79%, Bresnan et al. 2007a). Prosodic information has also been found to contribute to dative construction choice (”