Order of Recipient and Theme in Ditransitive Constructions (Feature 61)
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Ditransitive constructions with the verb ‘give’ have an agent/subject (S), a recipient (R) and a theme (T) argument (see also Feature 60, on argument coding in ditransitives). Here we ask about the order of the recipient (R) and the theme (T) argument with respect to the subject (S), the verb (V) and each other.
Only constructions in which both recipient and theme are full NPs are taken into account, i.e. the order with pronominal objects is disregarded.
Only the verb ‘give’ is considered (other ditransitive verbs sometimes show different behaviour).
If the language has several possible orders (e.g. English I gave John a book/I gave a book to John), you may select several values.
Additional remarks
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Values
| Value | Value Annotation | |
| 1 | S-V-R-T | English I gave the man a rose. |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | S-V-T-R | English I gave a rose to the man. Tok Pisin dispela meri i givim sampla faiawud i go long pikinini ‘This woman gave some firewood to the child’. |
| 3 | S-T-R-V | German (dass) ich die Rose einem Mann gegeben habe ‘(that) I gave the rose to a man’; also Sri Lanka Portuguese |
| 4 | S-R-T-V | German (dass) ich dem Mann eine Rose gegeben habe ‘(that) I gave the man a rose’ |
| 5 | V-S-R-T | |
| 6 | V-S-T-R | Ternateño Di dale Rosa el flores con el maestra. [fut give Rosa the flower obj the teacher] ‘Rosa will give the flower to the teacher’. |
| 7 | S-R-V-T | |
| 8 | S-T-V-R | Bambara and other Mande languages |
| 9 | Other | (Please give details in the “General comments” field.) |
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