The Double Object Construction and the Dative Construction roughly form a paraphrase relation, but there are so many interesting syntactic and semantic differences between them. This paper proposes that their differences follow from the Binarity Princ...
The Double Object Construction and the Dative Construction roughly form a paraphrase relation, but there are so many interesting syntactic and semantic differences between them. This paper proposes that their differences follow from the Binarity Principle and the Principle of Co-arguments if both objects of the DOC are arguments, whereas the dative phrase of the DC is not an argument but an adjunct.