Zhang Min.2009.How to give in a language without ‘give’

In a recent crosslinguistic study on the double object construction (DOC), Kittilä (2006) proposes an exceptionless universal hypothesis claiming that if only one verb is found in the DOC, it will invariably be ‘give’. A question naturally arising from Kittilä’s (2006) claim is: how ditransitive events are coded in languages where ‘give’, the general-..