Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of abbreviations IX
5. Part 1: The nature of ditransitive arguments: the contribution of diachrony
6. 1. How do ditransitives change? 1
7. 2. Roles and grammatical relations in synchrony and diachrony: the case of the indirect object 19
8. Part 2: Ditransitive verbs and construction alternation
9. 3. The spread of the ad construction in Merovingian Latin: identifying semantic paths in the domain of ditransitives 61
10. 4. Old Italian ditransitive constructions: between alternation and change 97
11. 5. The emergence of the dative alternation in Dutch: towards the establishment of a horizontal link 137
12. 6. Attraction and differentiation in the history of the English dative and benefactive alternations 169
13. 7. The ditransitive alternation in the history of German: the case of verkaufen (‘sell’) 197
14. Part 3: Ditransitives between stability and further developments
15. 8. The diachrony of ditransitives in Vedic Sanskrit 231
16. 9. Passives of ditransitives: the gradual rise of a Recipient passive in Italian 259
17. 10. ‘Hit’ semantics and physical sensations: on the development of spontaneous event constructions with Spanish dar ‘give’ 285
18. Subject Index 313