Ditransitive Construction (Obj: NP)

Part of language	Late Modern English (1800-now)
Meaning of the construction	ÆFFECTOR makes RECIPIENT receive ÆFFECTED. ÆFFECTOR makes RECIPIENT receive ÆFFECTED.

Construction elements

Examples

Example 1

Text	She gave him a present.

Links

different form and similar function	Caused-Motion Constrution (PPto)	None
same form and different function	Attribute Construction (Obj: NP)	None

Research

Research Question	Finding
Link CASA (a Construction Grammar Approach to Syntactic Analysis) and the Research Constructicon	The relational database for CASA entries can be translated into the RDF format of the Research Constructicon.

Metadata

Date Created	2026-01-16
Date Created	2026-02-04
Annotator	Elodie Winckel
Similar construction in other Constructicons	https://constructicon.de/constructions/5
References	Goldberg, Adele E. 1995. Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. University of Chicago Press.
References	Goldberg, Adele E. 2006. Constructions at Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
References	Croft, William. 2012. Verbs: aspect and causal structure (Oxford Linguistics). Oxford [England] New York: Oxford University Press.
References	Herbst, Thomas. 2020. Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language: Moving towards colloconstruction grammar. Constructions and Frames 12(1). 56–95. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.00035.her.
References	Herbst, Thomas & Thomas Hoffmann. 2024. A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.5.

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