Abstract
The paper aims at contributing to the study of ditransitive complementation from the FSP point of view. It focuses on the position of the two objects of ditransitive verbs and on the factors that have an impact on the object ordering.
Ditransitive verbs are defined as verbs that require complementation by two right-hand participants, two objects. Of the two basic types of ditransitive complementation, Oi-Od and Od-Oprep, the first type is dealt with, the point under analysis being the alternation between Oi and Oprep.
Ditransitive verbs of this type thus form two clause patterns: SVOiOd and SVOdOprep. The two positions of the objects are systematically examined with respect to non-clausal realization (i.e. substantival or pronominal).
The results show that the pattern SVOiOd occurs more often (62.3%) than SVOdOprep. However, the pattern seems to depend on the non-clausal realization of objects - if both the objects are substantival, SVOdOprep is more frequent.
The findings regarding the correlation between the object ordering and the degrees of communicative dynamism show that in 89.4% instances, the objects are ordered in accordance with the increase of CD. Thus, in most instances the interaction of the two major word order principles, the grammatical and FSP, appear to be cooperative, i.e. there is agreement between the ordering of the objects and their degrees of CD.
Deviation from this pattern of CD was observed only in 10.6% instances.