Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:
> > b.. oblique (as an aspect or mood or so)
>
> From Larry Trask's excellent Dictionary Of Grammatical Terms In Linguistics
> (ISBN 0415086280):
>
> Denoting an argument [noun] which is neither a subject nor a direct object.
> Oblique [noun]s in English are realized as objects of prepositions; in some
> other languages, they may be objects of postpositions or case-marked
> [noun]s.
That seems to leave English's indirect objects rather hanging in the blue?*
* I've always known abstract spaces are light blue. Don't ask why.
Andreas