Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

192 Timothy Colleman It is well known that the semantic properties of lexical items are subject to various kinds of lectal varia ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 193 presents the results of a small scale corpus investigation into the use of benefactive di ...

194 Timothy Colleman d. Magda kupiła Wojtkowi książkę. Magda:NOM bought Wojtek:DAT book:ACC ‘Magda bought Wojtek a book.’ e. Kry ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 195 construction in English. Goldberg (1995) incorporates this view in her se- mantic network ...

196 Timothy Colleman shirts probably already belonged to the beneficiary before the event, so there is no intended transfer of p ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 197 (a plate)’ and in formal language also (een maaltijd) bereiden ‘prepare (a meal)’, see (6 ...

198 Timothy Colleman c. ... dat hy hem de deur opende, en in een kamer voerde. (N. Heinsius, De vermakelyken avanturier, 1695) ‘ ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 199 which are still widely used in everyday speech by many Belgian speakers. In the next sect ...

200 Timothy Colleman and reciprocal pronouns, within a span of five words to the left or to the right (using the in-built search ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 201 Table 1. Observed benefactive ditransitives^6 Netherlandic subcorpora Belgian subcorpora ...

202 Timothy Colleman b. Mogelijk hebben de bouwvakkers hem een poets willen bakken. [CONDIV_newspaper_NL] ‘Possibly, the constru ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 203 Webelhuth and Dannenberg 2006 for an analysis of the Southern American construction in He ...

204 Timothy Colleman ‘Gorcha Davidova was looking for a nice present for her birthday.’ (lit. searched herself a nice present fo ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 205 landic Dutch, and examples like (16c) are occasionally found in Belgian texts only. (16) ...

206 Timothy Colleman subevents involved in this kind of benefaction event, viz. (i) the preparatory act, i.e. the creation or th ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 207 First, consider the attested instances of inschenken and opscheppen used in the so-called ...

208 Timothy Colleman Second, the Web examples in (20) illustrate the use of inschenken ‘pour’ in the prepositional dative constr ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 209 To sum up, there are several indications that verbs such as inschenken ‘pour’ and opschep ...

210 Timothy Colleman ‘I’ve found an adapter at my local dealer’s now, but he needs it for him- self and he is too lazy to order ...

Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch 211 b. Ik kocht een pop voor mijn dochtertje. ‘I bought a doll for my daughter.’ This is in l ...