Ditransitives in Swedish. A Usage-Based Study of the Double Object Construction and Semantically Equivalent Prepositional Object Constructions 1800–2016

The study has a diachronic perspective, investigating changes in the use of these four constructions between 1800 and 2016. The data were collected from the National Language Bank of Sweden (Nationella Språkbanken).

More specifically, the data are from the corpora listed below. Svensk prosafiktion spraakbanken.gu.se/resurser/spf Bonniersromaner 1976–77 spraakbanken.gu.se/resurser/romi Bonniersromaner 1980–81 spraakbanken.gu.se/resurser/romii Norstedtsromaner 1999 spraakbanken.gu.se/resurser/rom99 Bloggmix 2016. spraakbanken.gu.se/resurser/bloggmix2016 The data set contains examples of the Swedish double object construction (e.g. "ge ngn ngt" 'give sb. sth.', "visa ngn ngt" 'show sb. sth.') and semantically equivalent prepositional object constructions with the prepositions "till" (e.g. "ge ngt till ngn" 'give sth. to sb.'), "åt" (e.g. "ge ngt åt ngn" 'give sth. to sb.') and "för" (e.g. "visa ngt för ngn" 'show sth. to sb.').