The Gradience of the Dative Alternation

By Joan Bresnan, Tatiana Nikitina. 2008

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The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors (2012, background): “In order to ensure that sentences were matched for NP length, definiteness, aspect, animacy, and pronominality (all factors that have been shown to influence the relative grammaticality of the two dative constructions; Bresnan et al. 2007), all sentences were constructed according to the templates i”
Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both? (2014, background): “…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, Grimma, Arnon, Kirby, & Bresnan, 2011; Krifka, 2004).”
The input–output relationship in first language acquisition (2006, background): “Ultimately, these datadriven approaches to language structure might help to overcome the divide between formal and functional linguistic theories (e.g., Bresnan & Aissen, 2002; Bresnan & Nikitina, 2003).”
of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production (2012, methodology): “…alternatives (ditransitive, or NP NP I’ll give Tom the book and prepositional, or NP PP I’ll give the book to Tom) differ in their word order but not in their core meaning (for discussion see Bresnan, Cueni, Nikitina, & Baayen, 2007; Bresnan & Nikitina, 2009; Fellbaum, 2005; Bresnan & Ford, 2010).”
Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English (2010, background): “Yet the studies of broad-coverage corpora cited above, as well as others (e.g. Grimm and Bresnan 2009) show that probabilistic grammatical differences exist between varieties at the macro-regional level.”