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Role Alternations

Role Alternations is a linguistic phenomenon within the study of semantic roles that refers to systematic changes in the assignment of thematic roles to arguments across different syntactic constructions or lexical contexts, reflecting predictable shifts in how meaning is mapped onto grammatical relations.

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42

Authors

20

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2017–2026

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Variants

Diathesis Alternations

Parents

Publications

25

Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: Influences of content-based expectations

Roman Taraban, James L. McClelland · Journal of Memory and Language · 1988 · 325 citations

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Role and Reference Related Subject Properties and Ergativity in Yup'Ik Eskimo and Tagalog

Thomas E. Payne · Studies in Language · 1982 · 210 citations

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Event Construal and Case Role Assignment

Scott DeLancey · Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society · 1991 · 180 citations · Full text

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Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits

Martín Haspelmath · Linguistics · 2020 · 134 citations · Full text

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Two-year-olds use distributional cues to interpret transitivity-alternating verbs

Rose M. Scott, Cynthia Fisher · Language and Cognitive Processes · 2009 · 86 citations · Full text

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Authors

42

  1. IL
    Idan Landau

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  2. LB
    Lennart Bierkandt

    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  3. JS
    Jesse Snedeker

    Harvard University, United States

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  4. JF
    J. Frense

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 36 citations

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  5. JM
    Joris M. Koene

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    1 publications · 79 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    729 citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    172 citations

  3. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    64 citations

  4. Leipzig University

    Leipzig, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    134 citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    73 citations

  6. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

    Beersheba, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  7. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    158 citations

  8. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

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Venues

  1. Studies in Language

    3 publications · 257 citations

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  2. Journal of Memory and Language

    2 publications · 404 citations

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  3. Linguistics

    1 publications · 134 citations

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  4. BMC Evolutionary Biology

    1 publications · 79 citations

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  5. ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

    1 publications · 18 citations

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