Abstract structures and meaning in Japanese dative structural priming

Abstract Syntactic structures and meaning appear to independently contribute structural priming within English alternations. Japanese uses scrambling of case-marked phrases create syntactic alternations, it is not clear how impacts scrambling-based choices. To examine this issue, overlap with dative targets was manipulated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, datives primed targets, but structurally similar primes idiomatic meanings did prime. 2, transitive that differed from thematic roles showed as much primes. The results demonstrate alternations can be differ role meaning, the lack idiom means these may less independent than those other languages.