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]: --
For example, kick prototypically has two participant roles whereas the ditransitive construction has three.
Grammatically, the lexeme is a ditransitive verb of exchange.
Thus, a preposition was required to mark case for the oblique argument of the ditransitive verbs.
By focusing on the interactions between direct and indirect objects, she uncovers the structure of ditransitive predicates.
Chapter 2 focuses on the types of ditransitives which are found cross-linguistically, and the range of behaviors of objects in ditransitive structures.
In many cases, such as our representation of the ditransitive verb class, the embeddedness of a particular semantic argument is independently semantically motivated.
For this analysis, all intransitive verbs were excluded and the remaining transitive and ditransitive utterances were inspected.
For example, we might wish to compare the age of emergence of the ditransitive dative and the prepositional dative for a given child.
