Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages: new avenues and new challenges / Eva Zehentner, Melanie R�othlisberger and Timothy Colleman -- The emergence of the English dative alternation as a response to system-wide changes: an evolutionary game theory approach / Eva Zehentner -- The Middle English prepositional dative: contact with French / Richard Ingham -- Ditransitive constructions in the history of German: factors influencing object alignment / Philipp Rauth -- The double object construction in 19th- and 20th-century Swedish / Frederik Valdeson -- Indexicality across the boundaries of syntax, semantics and pragmatics: the constructional content of the Danish free indirect object / Peter Juul Nielsen and Lars Heltoft -- Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English: weighing sociolinguistic factors against language-internal constraints / Johanna Gerwin and Melanie R�othlisberger -- Exploring variation in the dative alternation across World Englishes / Melanie R�othlisberger -- The dative alternation in German: structural preferences and verb bias effects / Alina Kholodova and Shanley Allen -- Ditransitives in Faroese: the distribution of IO/DO and PP / Cherlon Ussery and Hjalmar Petersen -- The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch dative alternation / Tanguy Dubois -- Giving in English and Norwegian: a contrastive perspective / Thomas Egan -- Acquiring feature-based ordering preferences in English ditransitives / Daniel B�urkle.

"This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume's broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family"-- Provided by publisher.

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