Alternation in English
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چکیده
It has been noted repeatedly that although many verbs do occur in both syntactic patterns, some verbs only occur in one of the two patterns. For example, verbs such as cost and deny are widely described as occurring only with the DO construction whereas verbs such as drag and yell only with the PO construction. In addition, although certain verbs have been observed in both syntactic patterns, they only occur in one of the two patterns when the Theme has a restricted meaning. For example, when the Theme denotes an event or a nonreferential object (e. g. a bath, a hard time), the verb give tend to occur in the DO construction, not the PO construction.
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