With verb of transfer of possession, in the basic pattern, the thing transferred is direct object with the recipient (or intended recipient) in a PP headed by preposition to; in the nonbasic pattern, the recipient appears as direct object in postverbal position with the thing transferred following as an unmarked second object.
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