ditransitive

Many ditransitive verbs have a passive voice form which can take a direct object.

The patient of a ditransitive verb is treated separately and called secondary object.

In English "to give" and "to lend" are typical ditransitive verbs.

An example with the ditransitive verb "show" (literally: "make see") is given below:

They are called ditransitive verbs.

Verbs that are able to take two objects, a direct object and an indirect object, are called ditransitive.

There is a different kind of ditransitive verb, where the two objects are semantically an entity and a quality, a source and a result, etc.

Studies in ditransitive constructions.

Active verbs may have one, two, or three arguments (making them respectively intransitive, transitive, or ditransitive).

And the following idioms involving a ditransitive verb include the second object at the same time that the first object is free:

Trivalent verbs have one subject and always both, direct and indirect objects and are ditransitive.

Argument Interpretations of the Ditransitive Construction.

"Ditransitive constructions in Ket" The typology of ditransitives, ed.

If the original verb is transitive, the causative is ditransitive: to eat (sth.)

It has obligatory polyagreement on all verbs with subject and object, though not with the theme of a ditransitive verb.

In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects which refer to a theme and a recipient.

The basic word order of subject-verb-object is common across Chinese dialects, but there are variations in the order of the two objects of ditransitive sentences.

Ditransitive verbs have two arguments other than the subject: a theme that undergoes the action and a recipient that receives the theme (see thematic role).

Sanford Steever has shown the same phenomenon has a role in the emergence of the ditransitive paradigm in Dravidian.

In the second example, the applicative suffix -ira converts the (usually monotransitive) verb gamba to a ditransitive.

"Argument Marking in Ditransitive Alignment Types", Martin Haspelmath (2005)

The indirect object of ditransitive verbs, however, can be in the dative, locative, allative, or with some verbs also in the absolutive.

Ditransitive clauses consist of an accusative object and dative indirect object, and alternate with a clause with two accusative objects.

A secundative language is a language in which the indirect objects of ditransitive verbs are treated like the direct objects of monotransitive verbs.

A mysterious property of shifting is that in the case of ditransitive verbs, a shifted direct object prevents extraction of the indirect object via wh-movement: