Semantic and Pragmatic Conditions for the Dative Alternation

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Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both? (2014, background): “110 corpora and that*for both adults and children*dative choice in production is determined largely by factors such as the relative animacy, accessibility, definiteness, and length of the recipient and theme (e.g., Bresnan, 2007a, 2007b; Bresnan & Nikitina, 2007; Bresnan et al., 2007; de Marneffe, G”
Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English (2010, background): “Lastly, the truth-conditional semantics of the dative alternation has been addressed in model-theoretic terms which assume truth-conditional equivalence for some alternating dative verbs (Krifka 2003).”