{"id":7774,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/double_object_nouns\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","slug":"double_object_nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/double_object_nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Double object nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The construction that places two nouns after a verb, as in the sentence &#8220;John gave Bill the ball&#8221;. &nbsp;Verbs such as &#8216;give&#8217; can appear in both the double object <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/what-is-dative-case\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/what-is-dative-case\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dative<\/a> construction as in this example, and also in the prepositional dative construction as in &#8220;John gave the ball to Bill'&#8221;. &nbsp;There is a class of verbs, however, such as &#8216;donate&#8217; that can only appear in prepositional construction form as in &#8220;John donated a sum of money to the charity&#8221;. &nbsp;Alternating between the two constructions is something that children have to learn, and in doing so generalize this alteration to verbs such as &#8216;donate&#8217;, thus producing grammatically incorrect sentences such as &#8220;John donated the charity a sum of money&#8221;. Eventually, they learn which verbs cannot occur in the double construction form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, Syntax <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction that places two nouns after a verb, as in the sentence &#8220;John gave Bill the ball&#8221;. &nbsp;Verbs such as &#8216;give&#8217; can appear in both the double object dative construction as in this example, and also in the prepositional dative construction as in &#8220;John gave the ball to Bill&#8217;&#8221;. &nbsp;There is a class of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/double_object_nouns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Double object nouns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}