Projektnummer

0061834

Zusammenfassung

In contrast to a long-standing assumption that verbs with similar meanings exhibit similar grammatical behavior, recent research on verbal syntax and semantics has emphasized that semantically related verbs are not identical in the number and types of constructions they appear in. For example, verbs related to "give" realize the given theme as direct object and the recipient in a "to" phrase: "I gave/donated/contributed $20 to Pat." However, of the verbs above, only "give" realizes the recipient as a first-object in a double-object construction: "I gave/donated/endowed Pat $20." Despit...