Abstract
AbstractThis paper deals with the ‘reverse’ double object construction in Hakka, where the theme NP precedes the goal NP without being mediated by an adpositional goal marker. I show that the reverse V‐theme‐goal order is sensitive to verb types and argue that this construction takes an underlying dative structure with a non‐thematic null prepositional goal marker. This formal syntactic account is shown to capture the word order alternations and grammatical properties observed in Hakka ditransitives.
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