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Ditransitive Construction (Obj: INF)

Name Ditransitive Construction (Obj: INF)
Semantic function of cxn ÆFFECTOR makes RECIPIENT receive ÆFFECTED. (i.e. ÆFFECTOR causes or enables the RECIPIENT to carry out ÆFFECTED-ACTION.)
Slots Slot 1: argument Slot 2: predicate Slot 3: argument Slot 4: argument
Semantic role of slots ÆFFECTOR RECIPIENT ÆFFECTED-ACTION

Syntactic function  

potential subject unit in predicate unit in predicate
Syntactic form NP V NP INF
Example She let him come to the meeting.
Collo-profile
bid  help  let  make  
Sources for collo-profile Valency Dictionary of English, Patternbank
Cxn with same formal pattern Attribute Construction (Attr: to-INF) (She pronounced him to be the winner.)
Resultative Construction (Attr: to-INF) (They appointed her to run the campaign.)
General cxn-type Active-3-Argument-Structure Construction
Construction family Ditransitive Constructions
Annotators/Date TRH/03/21F-E