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Dative Alternation in Indian English: A Corpus-Based Analysis
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De Cuypere, Ludovic; Verbeke, Saartje – World Englishes, 2013
The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction ("I give my sister a book") vs. the to-dative construction ("I give a book to my sister"). We examined the motivations behind the dative alternation in Indian English. A corpus study was…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Sentence Structure, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)