Re: Ditransitivity (again!)
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 24, 2004, 20:31 |
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Merhaba!
Verbs like 'to throw' are not inherently ditransitive; 'to give', on the other hand,
is. With 'to throw' (f'rinstance), you can have 'I throw the ball' and 'I throw
the ball (to him)', where 'to him' is oblique, not mandatory. I consider
ditransitives to be those verbs where you absolutely need an indirect object
for the sentence to be grammatical - as well as a subject and object - and not
where they can, but don't absolutely need, an indirect object.
--Trebor
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