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In linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative form, the verb takes a noun phrase and a dative prepositional phrase , the second of which is not a core argument.
In the double object construction form the verb takes two noun phrases, both of which are core arguments, with the dative argument preceding the other argument.
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