61 Order of recipient and theme in ditransitive constructions
This feature is described more fully in
chapter 61.
Summary
This feature primarily concerns the ordering of the recipient and the theme objects of a ditransitive construction, i.e. a construction involving a verb of physical transfer of possession or mental transfer of experience ('give', 'show'). Only full noun phrases are taken into account, as pronouns often show differnt behaviour. The position of the objects with respect to the subject and the verb is also taken into account, although this is analogous to the order in monotransitive clauses.
Authors
Martin Haspelmath and the APiCS ConsortiumValues
| excl | shrd | all | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Subject – verb – recipient – theme | 23 | 39 | 62 |
 | Subject – verb – theme – recipient | 6 | 39 | 45 |
 | Subject – theme – recipient – verb | 0 | 5 | 5 |
 | Subject – recipient – theme – verb | 2 | 6 | 8 |
 | Verb-initial recipient – theme | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 | Verb-initial theme – recipient | 1 | 4 | 5 |
 | Other recipient – theme | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 | Other theme – recipient | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Representation: | 75 | |||
| Language | Value | Lexifier | Details | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Id | Primary text | Analyzed text | Gloss | Translation | Type | Language | Audio | Details |
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