On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives: The woman showed the baby to her sister

Kittilä, Seppo

doi:10.1075/slcs.77.19kit

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Case, Valency and Transitivity
Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart
[Studies in Language Companion Series 77] 2006
► pp. 291–308

The woman showed the baby to her sister

On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives

Seppo Kittilä

Published online: 15 November 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.77.19kit

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