Thesis
Double object constructions and 'bill' verbs in English
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This thesis empirically tests the two predominant views concerning which object in a DOC is the ‘true’ one by applying Hudson’s (1992) eleven objecthood diagnostics to verbs that pattern like ‘bill’ in a corpus search and a grammatical acceptability survey. Only two tests showed statistically significant results: passivization and extraction. Passivization indicated that the first positional object (O1) behaves most like the monotransitive object (O0). Extraction indicated that, by a small ma...
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+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Victoria Joanne Thomas
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- MPhil
- Level of award:
- Masters
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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uuid:3a7fcff7-f8ba-4847-9002-71b3c228b955
- Local pid:
- ora:6817
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- Copyright holder:
- Victoria Thomas
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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