A Reconsideration of Dative Movements or, Beating a Dead Horse Back to Life.

A Reconsideration of Dative Movements or, Beating a Dead Horse Back to Life.

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A contribution to transformational grammar, explaining the indirect object shifts involved in passive versus active sentences. Noting that the preposition next to the verb is always deleted, a number of object-permuting rules are generalized into on...