Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation Universiteit Gent
In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in recent psycholinguistic research on syntactic priming, the concept of alternation bias, i.e. the lexical preferences of individual verbs for one of two (or more) alternating constructions, plays a crucial role. This paper offers a detailed comparison of the results from CollemanU+2019s (2009) corpus-based investigation of the dative alternation in Dutch with the findings from a ...