Timeline for Can a sentence have an indirect object without a direct object?
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| May 27 at 17:23 | answer | added | Litrisia | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 22:09 | answer | added | t.kay | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 22:35 | answer | added | Matt Butcher | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | John Lawler | Alas, as the answers show, the concepts of direct object and indirect object are fraught with disagreement. The problem is confusing generalizations with observations. In general, indirect objects are recipient NPs in transfer verbs live give or tell. But once there's a construction, it's available for other uses, in other contexts. The more interesting question is why almost all IOs are receivers, while DOs vary widely in semantic role, dependent mostly on the verb class and the context. | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 11:46 | answer | added | Lloyd John Friedrich | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 25, 2017 at 22:33 | answer | added | Michael Hinds | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 21:47 | vote | accept | talrnu | ||
| Nov 2, 2015 at 21:47 | answer | added | talrnu | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 18:23 | answer | added | D. Kern | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 22:12 | answer | added | user50720 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 14:52 | answer | added | user31341 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 5:28 | answer | added | rogermue | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 5:08 | answer | added | user0721090601 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/523335122855428096 | ||
| Oct 18, 2014 at 4:21 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 2:25 | history | edited | talrnu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2014 at 1:44 | answer | added | Ornello | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 1:32 | history | asked | talrnu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |