Phil So, transitive verbs in English take objects. The direct object is what receives or has the action done to it, and an indirect object is often who or what it is done for. So, if I say, "My father ...

JAUME MATEU, Arguing our way to the "Direct Object Restriction" on English resultatives, The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 8, No. 1/2, Selected papers from the 17th Comparative ...

This paper gives an in-depth analysis of a number of well-known verbal diathesis alternations (creation/transformation, locative and dative alternations), and specifically investigates the position of ...