Timeline for Are ditransitives (or tritransitives?) cross-linguistically attested?
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 23:19 | comment | added | MGN | @Henry That's not the definition usually employed in typology as far as I've seen, do you know of typological studies where they use that definition? what would be the reason for doing so? BTW, you misspelled "gab". | |
| Nov 12, 2013 at 23:07 | comment | added | Henry | It depends on what you call ditransitive. If you accept "Ich dab dem Kind den Apfel" (I gave the child the apple) in German with dative and accusative markings, then it is widespread. If your definition of ditransitive includes the ability to make any of the three nouns the subject as in "The child was given an apple by me" then it is rare. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 17:02 | history | answered | MGN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |