Ditransitive Construction (Obj: NP)

Part of language	English
Meaning of the construction	ÆFFECTOR makes RECIPIENT receive ÆFFECTED.
Meaning of the construction	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	Link CASA (a Construction Grammar Approach to Syntactic Analysis) and the Research Constructicon
Findings	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	William Croft (2012). Constructions at Work.
References	Adele E. Goldberg (1995). Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure.
References	Adele E. Goldberg (2006). Verbs: aspect and causal structure.
References	Thomas Herbst (2020). Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language: Moving towards colloconstruction grammar. 10.1075/cf.00035.her
References	Herbst & Hoffmann (2024). A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis. ISBN 978-90-272-4676-9

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