A dechticaetiative language
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 9, 2004, 12:59 |
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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.
Pete
I gave
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