A reconsideration of Dative Movements (1972)

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Abstract
The standard analyses of the dative generally postulate two similar Dative Movement rules, one of which applies to to-indirect objects and the other to for-indirect objects. This chapter shows how to improve this analysis within the framework of traditional transformational rules. It demonstrates that constraints imposed by the hearer’s perceptual strategy for interpreting sentences play a part in the unacceptability of certain constructions. These constraints are used to account for the remaining anomalies in the dative shift paradigms.