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Some English grammar books illustrate that the indirect object of some ditransitive verbs such as write and buy is not allowed to be passivized, and secondary school English teachers accordingly teach their students. To describe this linguistic aspect, I have conducted a survey on the passive of English DOCs among 20 high school students in the US. The survey exhibits a different result; only 2 out of 20 subjects respond that the passivization of the indirect object is ungrammatical. Some theoretical grounds such as Case and Ɵ-role assignment also lend support to the IO-passive movement. Nevertheless, its movement is not approved to be completely natural by the subjects. I attribute this to a diachronic observation that the passivization of IO has expanded from Old English up to the present. I also suggest that the trace of P, which is ‘active’, left by Preposition Incorporation somehow hinders its movement, and the degree of its being active varies across ditransitive verbs.

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I. Introduction
 II. Properties of Double Object Constructions
  1. Dative Shift and Thematic Roles
  2. The Asymmetrical Relations of Two objects
  3. The Structure of Double Object Construction
 III. Passive Movement
  1. Passivization
  2. Asymmetries in DOC Passivization
  3. A Historical Overview of the Indirect Object
 IV. Method
  1. Subjects
  2. Materials and Procedure
  3. Results and Discussion
 V. Conclusion
 Works Cited
 Appendix
 Abstract

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저자

• Kang, Seung-Man [ 강승만 | Chungbuk National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810