文档介绍：Acknowledgements
There are many people from whose help ments I have benefitted
considerably. First and foremost, I would like to thank Jürgen Esser for his advice
throughout the project and his support way beyond the call of duty, without
which this book would never have materialised. To him this book is dedicated.
I would also like to thank Manfred Kohrt, Winfried Lenders, Karl Reichl
and Klaus Peter Schneider who read earlier drafts of the manuscript and provided
me with detailed feedback. ments and discussions on individual examples
and analyses, arguments and conclusions, I am grateful to Bas Aarts, Jan Aarts,
the late Ruth Brend, Sylviane Granger, Sebastian Hoffmann, Rolf Kreyer,
Geoffrey Leech, Jacqueline Monschau and the audiences at various conferences,
in particular at the LACUS Forum 2001 in Montreal and the ICAME Conference
2002 in Gothenburg. Special thanks are due to my native-speaker informants
Anne Barron, Rosemary Bock, Shalini Gupta, Sach Mukherjee and Sally Schmie-
sing. I would also like to express my thanks to the series editors for including this
book in Language puters. Christian Mair in particular gave me in-
valuable advice at various stages of the editorial process. The proof-reading of the
final version of the manuscript was taken over by Rosemary Bock, for which I am
most grateful. Naturally, I remain responsible for all remaining blunders and
infelicities.
Finally, I owe an extreme debt of gratitude to my wife, Nicole, for her
unfailing support and love.
Chapter 1
Ditransitive verbs in previous research and in
the present work
In spite of the vast literature that ditransitive verbs have spawned, linguists still
do not unanimously agree on what ditransitive verbs are. Even the viability and
scope of the concept of ditransitivity in general are a matter of dispute.
Presumably this is why there are so many different models for the description of
ditransitivity. Thus, an overview of var