<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear linguists,<div><br></div><div>I am wondering if there is any case where in the ditransitive ‘give’ construction, the agent (giver) and recipient are marked by the same item, but the theme (or direct object) is marked differently, e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div>1SG-NOM give 2SG-NOM pen</div><div>‘I gave you a pen.’</div><div><br></div><div>This pattern does not fit well in the <span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">conceptual space for core arguments (Croft 2001), so I expect it is not very common across languages.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Thank you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Warmest,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Pun Ho Lui Joe</span></div><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"></span><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>