0 A ditranstive verb can be followed by two objects, one of which has the action of the verb done to it and the other of which has the action of the verb directed towards it. In this dictionary, ditransitive verbs are shown with the label [+ two objects]:
The range of ditransitive verbs in other languages may be broader, narrower, or even nonexistent.
In the case of a transitive verb, adding the applicative morpheme renders the verb ditransitive.
Of the 1186 transitive and ditransitive utterances, a total of 166 utterances with first or second person objects were identified.
In addition, there are ditransitive verbs that appear to be able to incorporate their notional direct object.
For example, a verb such as gi e is ditransitive and requires a subject and two objects.
Theme omissions and limited use of ditransitive verbs may reflect language processing limitations related to the complex processing demands characteristic of narrative discourse contexts.
The distributions thus overlap, and so we cannot say with statistical confidence that the ditransitive dative emerged before the prepositional dative for this child.
For example, we might wish to compare the age of emergence of the ditransitive dative and the prepositional dative for a given child.
