Dative shift

Shifting sentence forms with two-object verbs

In linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative (OD) form, the verb takes a noun phrase (NP) and a dative prepositional phrase (PP), the second of which is not a core argument.(1) John gave [NP a book ] [PP.DATIVE to Mary ].

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