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dative alternating verbs as reflected in frequency data from natural language
corpora and from a priming experiment. A sense-based distinctive collexeme
analysis on the corpus data indicates that distinct senses of the same verb may
indeed display different alternation biases. The response patterns in our priming
experiment suggest that language users keep track of verb subcategorization
preferences at different levels of schematization.
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