Re: A dechticaetiative language

Peter Bleackley wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, a dechticaetiative language is one where objects may
> be classified as primary objects and secondary objects, such that
>
> Primary objects correspond to the patient of a monotransituve sentence, and
> the recipient of a ditransitive sentence.
>
> Secondary objects correspond to the patient of a ditransitive sentence.
>
> Now, considering the following examples
>
> (Monotransitive)
>
> I gave a book
> S V    PO
>     PAT
>
> (Ditransitive)
> I gave John a book
> S V    PO   SO
>     REC  PAT
>
> we can clearly see that English is a dechticaetiative language.
This claim has been made before on the list, I believe. I even mentioned
it in the Wikipedia article on "Dechticaetiative language".

I think it makes a lot of sense.

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