Alternation ‘Nom-Dat vs. Dat-Nom’ (Uncoded)

In the Nom-Dat alternant the nominative argument is the syntactic subject and the dative is the syntactic object, while in the Dat-Nom alternant the Dat is the syntactic subject and the nominative argument is the syntactic object.

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