Let’s drop the object : An experimental study of the implicit object construction in American English

The topic of transitive structures with implicit (phonologically null) objects has received much attention in Construction Grammar (CxG). Among natural languages, English is characterized by allowing mainly non-referential implicit objects (‘They build _ for a living’), whereas referential implicit...

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Main Author: Elena Gavruseva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2024-11-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/3028
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