Possession and the double object construction

@article{Harley2002PossessionAT,
  title={Possession and the double object construction},
  author={Heidi Harley},
  journal={Linguistic Variation Yearbook},
  year={2002},
  volume={2},
  pages={31-70}
}
  • H. Harley
  • Published 2002
  • Linguistics
  • Linguistic Variation Yearbook
This paper argues that double-object verbs decompose into two heads, an external-argumentselecting CAUSE predicate (vCAUSE) and a prepositional element, PHAVE. Two primary types of argument are presented. First, a consideration of the well-known Oerhle’s generalization effects in English motivate such a decomposition, in combination with a consideration of idioms in ditransitive structures. These facts mitigate strongly against a Transform approach to the dative alternation, like that of Larson… 
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