"laud" as a dative alternation verb

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

Jennifer Ludden, on NPR's Morning Edition, 11/11/04, of Yasser Arafat:
"...but Palestinians lauded him a hero".

this moves "laud" into one of the subtypes of dative alternation verbs
(Levin, English Verb Classes and Alternations, section 2.1),
specifically the "non-alternating double object" subtype (Levin, (119)
on p. 47), lacking a prepositional alternative.  by its semantics,
"laud" seems to straddle three of levin's subsubtypes:
   Appoint verbs: designate, ordain, proclaim, elect,...
   Dub verbs: call, decree, pronounce, term,...
   Declare verbs: adjudge, declare, judge,...
but syntactically it looks like an Appoint verb, which can take an "as"
complement:
   designate/ordain/proclaim/elect him (as) a representative
compare:
   laud/praise/celebrate/honor him as a hero.

a google search on
   "lauded him" -as -for
pulls up no examples parallel to the Arafat example.  i judge the other
praise verbs to be even worse than "laud" in the double-object
construction, but then what do i know?  anyone have similar examples?

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)