Alternation ‘Prepositional Alternation’ (Coded)

The formerly dative marked recipient-like argument becomes a prepositional object instead and possibly turns into an adjunct. The benefactive alternation (which introduces an additional dative object) is in many cases the starting point for this alternation. Where this is the case we pretend as if the Prepositional alternation (I) occurs never, but we sometimes still provide an example for this alternation.

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