The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch dative alternation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages 1
4. The emergence of the English dative alternation as a response to system-wide changes 19
5. The Middle English prepositional dative 56
6. Ditransitive constructions in the history of German 80
7. The double object construction in 19th‑ and 20th‑century Swedish 115
8. Indexicality across the boundaries of syntax, semantics and pragmatics 150
9. Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English 195
10. Exploring variation in the dative alternation across World Englishes 226
11. The dative alternation in German 264
12. Ditransitives in Faroese 299
13. The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch dative alternation 325
14. Giving in English and Norwegian 365
15. Acquiring feature-based ordering preferences in English ditransitives 404
16. Index 441