Article outline

• 1.1The double-object verb give and its linguistic features
• 1.2giving in the linguistic sense
• 1.3Terminology: Double-object, ditransitive, three-place predicate and dative
• 1.4Syntactic realization of double-object construction
  • 1.4.1Word order of IO and DO
  • 1.4.2Marked and unmarked double-object constructions
• 1.5Other syntactic functions performed by give
• 1.6Organization of this book