Table of contents
Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages: New avenues and new challenges
1
The emergence of the English dative alternation as a response to
system-wide changes: An Evolutionary Game Theory approach
19
The Middle English prepositional dative: Contact with French
56
Ditransitive constructions in the history of German: Factors influencing
object alignment
80
The double object construction in 19th‑ and 20th‑century Swedish
115
Indexicality across the boundaries of syntax, semantics and
pragmatics: The constructional content of the Danish free indirect
object
150
Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English: Weighing sociolinguistic
factors against language-internal
constraints
195
Exploring variation in the dative alternation across World
Englishes
226
The dative alternation in German: Structural preferences and verb bias effects
264
Ditransitives in Faroese: The distribution of IO/DO and PP
299
The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch
dative alternation
325
Giving in English and Norwegian: A contrastive perspective
365
Acquiring feature-based ordering preferences in English
ditransitives
404
Index
441