Timeline for Can you use a ditransitive construction with the verb 'to attribute'?
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| Jul 12, 2016 at 2:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/752688505302708225 | ||
| Jul 9, 2016 at 21:52 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 8, 2016 at 19:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | ... Note (1) it's doubtless incomplete; (2) 'ditransitive' usually has a semantically-related requirement. 'He baked me a cake' would usually be labelled a 'benefactive' rather than a 'ditransitive' usage; note that 'for me' rather than 'to me' would be correct in the alternation. (3) 'Forgive us our trespasses' is arguably neither; (4) 'He took the dog a walk' and 'He led them a merry dance' are certainly neither. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's a list I've compiled over the years: accord afford allocate allow appoint ascribe ask assign assure award bake bet bring build buy call catch cause charge choose cook cost cut deal deliver deny design do draw drop earn feed find fine forgive get give grant guarantee hand hunt keep leave lend lose make name offer order overpay owe pass pay permit pick play prescribe profit promise purchase quote read refuse render save sell send serve set show spare supply take teach tell throw win wish write | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 19:13 | comment | added | user140086 | You will find the linked questions helpful. What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? and What are some give-type verbs that cannot undergo straight dative alternation? | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 18:34 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Hello, welcome back! You could, if you want, write to Stack Exchange via their contact us link and ask them to merge both accounts. I've seen it done with others in your same situation. Up to you, of course. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | user184292 | @Mari-Lou A - Yes, I'm the same one. I haven't been on in a long time -- so long that I don't know what happened to my old account. I couldn't remember the user name. So this is a new account that I created because I have this grammar question I can't seem to find an answer for, which I'm not finding one here either. Anyway, thanks for welcoming me back, Mari-Lou. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 9:12 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Are you the same Benjamin Harman that hasn't logged on since January of this year. If you are, welcome back! If you're not, Hello newcomer :) | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 0:02 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's not in my list of just under 80 verbs which may be used ditransitively / benefactively , but that's not conclusive. It's used ditransitively in a limited number of examples on the internet, some of which appear quite grammatical otherwise. I agree with everything FF says above. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 22:06 | answer | added | user183590 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 18:41 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think you can just about get away with discarding with before the second object, particulary when the first object is a pronoun. So We should avoid attributing them selfish motives doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. But I don't like either of your examples, and I wouldn't recommend habitually trying to use attribute ditransitively. | |
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| Jul 7, 2016 at 18:10 | history | asked | user184292 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |