Accessibility and Word Order: The Case of Ditransitive Constructions in Persian

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  • Pegah Faghiri
  • Pollet Samvelian
  • Barbara Hemforth
چکیده

In a most recent corpus study on Persian, Faghiri & Samvelian (2014) found a significant effect of relative length in the ordering preferences between the direct and indirect objects in the preverbal domain corresponding to ”long-before-short“. They furthermore showed that the position of the direct object mainly depends on its degree of determination, and put into question the broadly accepted dual view based solely on differential object marking. In this paper, we provide experimental evidence in support of these corpus findings and further propose a unified account of ordering preferences between the two objects on the basis of conceptual accessibility.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014