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Dative alternation in Italian-to-Dutch translation : a corpus-based study of the effect of structural priming

Francesca Antonioli (UGent) , Joke Daems (UGent) , Jelena Vranjes (UGent) and Gert De Sutter (UGent)
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This study investigates the effect of structural priming on dative alternation in Italian-to-Dutch translation. We analyse variation between the double object construction (DOC) and the prepositional object construction (POC) to determine whether the dative structure in the Italian source text influences the Dutch target text, while controlling for key language-internal factors. The methodology is corpus-based and applies a generalized linear mixed-effects model to a richly annotated dataset of translated sentence pairs (N = 719). Results show that the Italian construction significantly predicts the Dutch target construction, along with several conditioning variables: animacy of the recipient, length difference between theme and recipient, definiteness of the recipient, and the specific verb involved. These findings align with previous corpus-based studies on structural priming in translation (De Sutter et al., 2021, 2023), contribute to the Shared Representation Model (Schaeffer and Carl, 2013), and support the relevance of corpus-based approaches in structural priming research in translation.
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structural priming, dative alternation, corpus-based study, Dutch/Italian, SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATIONS, WORD-ORDER, LANGUAGES, PERSISTENCE, INFORMATION, BILINGUALS

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Antonioli, Francesca, et al. “Dative Alternation in Italian-to-Dutch Translation : A Corpus-Based Study of the Effect of Structural Priming.” LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST, 2026, doi:10.1075/lic.00063.ant.
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Antonioli, F., Daems, J., Vranjes, J., & De Sutter, G. (2026). Dative alternation in Italian-to-Dutch translation : a corpus-based study of the effect of structural priming. LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST. https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.00063.ant
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Antonioli, Francesca, Joke Daems, Jelena Vranjes, and Gert De Sutter. 2026. “Dative Alternation in Italian-to-Dutch Translation : A Corpus-Based Study of the Effect of Structural Priming.” LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST. https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.00063.ant.
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Antonioli, Francesca, Joke Daems, Jelena Vranjes, and Gert De Sutter. 2026. “Dative Alternation in Italian-to-Dutch Translation : A Corpus-Based Study of the Effect of Structural Priming.” LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST. doi:10.1075/lic.00063.ant.
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Antonioli F, Daems J, Vranjes J, De Sutter G. Dative alternation in Italian-to-Dutch translation : a corpus-based study of the effect of structural priming. LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST. 2026;
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F. Antonioli, J. Daems, J. Vranjes, and G. De Sutter, “Dative alternation in Italian-to-Dutch translation : a corpus-based study of the effect of structural priming,” LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST, 2026.
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  journal      = {{LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST}},
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