A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ n. The observation that, in a construction in which an underlying indirect or oblique object has been promoted to direct object, the underlying direct object fails to exhibit the typical properties of a direct object—for example, it cannot trigger direct object agreement in the verb, nor can it undergo passivization.
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