Abstract This paper explores the interaction between verbal and constructional semantics in the benefactive double object construction in English. My main aim is to disentangle the semantics of the construction exploring the constructional potential of the main alternating verb classes, i.e., verbs of “obtaining”, “creation” and “preparing” (Levin, 1993), and spelling out the cognitive principles that motivate these and other extended uses as cases of lexical-constructional subsumption within the framework of the Lexical Constructional Model (cf. Galera Masegosa & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2012; Ruiz de Mendoza, 2013). Rather than advocating a polysemous analysis of the ditransitive, as proposed by Goldberg (1992, 1995), the position I take here is that ditransitives with beneficiary arguments and ditransitives with prototypical recipient arguments instantiate two different subconstructions which cannot be treated under the same general rubric, in spite of their “shared surface form” (Goldberg, 2002, p. 330).

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英语受益双宾语构造中的意义构造和动机

摘要本文探讨了英语中受益双宾语构造中言语语义与构造语义之间的相互作用。我的主要目的是弄清结构的语义，探索主要交替动词类的结构潜力，即“获得”，“创造”和“准备”等动词（Levin，1993），并阐明认知原理，在词汇构造模型的框架内，激发这些和其他扩展用途，作为词汇构造包含的案例（参见Galera Masegosa和Ruiz de Mendoza，2012； Ruiz de Mendoza，2013）。与其提倡Goldberg（1992，1995）提出的对双及物的多义分析，