Re: Ditransitivity (again!)

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.