Argument Structure and Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese

Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese

the double object and the to-dative constructions. It is well known that the two differ semantically and syntactically. In some recent works, it is suggested that the semantic differences observed by Bresnan (1978), Oehrle (1976) and others, and the structural properties noted by Barss and Lasnik (1986), Larson (1988), and others, can both be captured by postulating an extra head for the Double...

Japanese Ditransitive Verbs and the Hierarchical Lexicon

Verbs Aspect and Argument Structure

Ditransitive verbs in Czech (and elsewhere)

Background. The internal structure of ditransitive verbs like give or send has been given a lot of attention in the generative literature. Two main approaches to these verbs in English can be distinguished: in the first approach, the double object construction (DOC) (1-a) is derivationally related to the structure with a dative PP (1-b) by an NP-movement accompanied by “dative-case absorption” ...

On the projection of ditransitive verbs*

This paper deals with the problem of the projection of arguments, i.e., how the arguments of a predicate are integrated into a syntactic structure. My starting point is the model offered in Borer (1993). This model is defined by Borer as a 'syntactic predicate based account' of the projection of arguments. In the next section I will briefly sketch the different approaches to the problem of argu...