Blar i forfatter Doktorgradsavhandlinger (HSL-fak) "Velnic, Marta"
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Ditransitive structures in Croatian adult and child language: the role of animacy and givenness
Velnic, Marta (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2018-02-22)This dissertation explores the effects that a semantic factor, animacy, and a pragmatic factor, givenness, have on the relative ordering of the two objects (IO-DO vs. DO-IO) in Croatian ditransitive structures. While the effects of animacy are explored only at a global level (object ordering), the effects of givenness are explored also in the choice of referring expressions. The effect that these ...