Reverse Double Objects in Hakka Ditransitive

• Autores: Hsiao-hung Iris Wu
• Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 75, Nº 3, 2021, págs. 599-622
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper deals with the ‘reverse’ double object construction in Hakka, where the theme NP precedes the goal NP without being mediated by an adpositional goal marker. I show that the reverse V-theme-goal order is sensitive to verb types and argue that this construction takes an underlying dative structure with a non-thematic null prepositional goal marker. This formal syntactic account is shown to capture the word order alternations and grammatical properties observed in Hakka ditransitives.