21.2029, Qs: Indirect Objects in the Form of Prepositional Phrases

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Subject: 21.2029, Qs: Indirect Objects in the Form of Prepositional Phrases

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Date: 27-Apr-2010
From: Muhammad Shakir < true.friend2004 at gmail.com >
Subject: Indirect Objects in the Form of Prepositional Phrases
 

	
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:53:44
From: Muhammad Shakir [true.friend2004 at gmail.com]
Subject: Indirect Objects in the Form of Prepositional Phrases

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Dear LINGUIST List subscribers,

I am working on ditransitive verbs, which is a corpus based study. I am 
having difficulty while dealing with indirect objects in the form of a 
prepositional phrase and especially "for-NP" constructions. It is very 
confusing for me to consider an inanimate prepositional object as 
beneficiary/recipient. 

Below are three examples I've taken from my corpus of Pakistani 
English:
1. "...run enterprise writes proposals for small technology projects..."
2. "...reform through writing plays for different channels..."
3. "...a has already written it for us before hand..."

These are raw concordance lines but the point can be understood 
easily.
- In 1, the recipient/beneficiary is an in-animate thing, can it be an 
indirect object here?
- In 2, it is bit clearer because 'channels' can receive something.
- In 3, the indirect object is an animate pronoun so it is not confusing 
for me.

I'll be very grateful if some help and explanation is provided regarding 
prepositional indirect objects, and the criteria to judge whether a 
prepositional object is an indirect object also. Any links to 
material/books would also be appreciated.

Best regards,
Muhammad Shakir 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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