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    • The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian: A reaction time study 

      Velnic, Marta; Anderssen, Merete (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)
      This study investigates how givenness and pronominality affect the dative alternation in Norwegian. Previous studies have found givenness to influence the Double Object Dative (DOD) but not the Prepositional Dative (PD). Thirty-one Norwegian native speakers completed a speeded acceptability judgment task, in which given objects were expressed by definite DPs or pronouns, and either preceded or ...

    • The effects of discourse topic on global and local markers in Croatian ditransitives 

      Velnic, Marta (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-04)
      This study investigates the impact that discourse topic has on (i) word order (global marking) and (ii) referring expression (local marking), in ditransitive structures in Croatian preschoolers and adult controls. According to general pragmatic principles, the discourse topic argument is expected to be placed before the rest of the sentence, thus complying with the (discourse) topic-comment order ...

    • Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms. 

      Velnic, Marta (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-13)
      Croatian adjectives have two forms in the masculine gender: the Long (L) form and the Short (S) form. The main distributional difference is that the Short adjective can be in predicative position and the Long one cannot, while both can be in attributive position. This difference between attributive and predicative can be related to a variety of other cross-linguistic distributions concerning adjectives ...