A Corpus Study of Mexican Spanish Three-Participant Constructions with and without Clitic Doubling

In Spanish verbs associated with three participants – Agent, Theme and Recipient – may appear in alternating constructions, where the 3rd person recipient argument is realized as a prepositional phrase (PP) (Pedro envió una carta a María ‘Peter sent a...

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Main Author: Chiyo Nishida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2012-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.422