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The Ditransitivity

Phedorinchyk A. S.pdf


Key words: ditransitivity, agent, recipient, theme, markers, transitivity.


The article reviews possible actant orientations in ditransitive constructions (sentences with agent, recipient and theme), the problem of selection of “basic” predicates for such constructions as well as morphosyntactic means used to discriminate the respective participants. As a result of the study, we outlined possible strategies of participant coding in such constructions.