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Re: Ditransitivity (again!)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, January 25, 2004, 5:45
Padraic wrote:
> How about call, cash, crimp, clamp, crash, clock, > cool, crack, can, cap, cache, cage, calcify, > calk, calm, campaign, > cancel, cane, crinkle, canvass, captain, > carbonate, careen, carry, cart, case, clobber, > clone, confuse, conjoin, conk, cream, > etc., etc.? > > If I understand right, all of those verbs (a > random sample from > <http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte973z/all.html> > which is a pretty cool resource) are > ditransitive, some tritransitive and can be put > into example sentences like you gave above.
Let's see some examples of your verbs in the frame "[subj.] [verb] [IO] [DO] " which can transform to [subj][verb][DO] to [IO].. True, many work with "for" instead of "to", but that's benefactive or dative of interest and is not obligatory in any case. I get things like-- "*He caned me the criminal" or "*He caned me the chair" "*I'll calk you the bathtub" "*She calmed me the baby" "*Henry clobbered her John" etc. Examples of "tritransitives" would be interesting too.