tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 04 10:36:19 2000
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Re: tlhIngan-Hol Digest 4 Jul 2000 08:00:00 -0000 Issue 1591
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan-Hol Digest 4 Jul 2000 08:00:00 -0000 Issue 1591
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:35:52 EDT
In a message dated 7/4/2000 04:01:06 Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Note that the sentences used
> as examples employ English verbs which are used in a slightly
> "ditransitive" sense:
>
> "The prisoner gave the officer the knife"
> "The officer brings them food"
These are not at all "ditransitive". "the officer" and "them" are indirect
objects. They aren't marked with "to" because of standard English word
order, which puts unmarked indirect objects before direct objects. Indirect
objects marked by "to" or "for" go after the DO.
Steven Lytle