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AndrewCarnie at 22:16, 22 May 2012

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''for a definition of indirect object see: [[Indirect Object (definition)]]

In Scottish Gaelic, the indirect object must appear after the [[Direct Object (definition)|direct object]] and must be contained in a prepositional phrase as in (6). The structure paralleling the English ''Mary gave Bill the book'', where the indirect object isn't marked with a preposition and the indirect object precedes the object is ungrammatical (7)

6.
:{|
|Thug||Morag||leabhar||'''do Bhill'''||
|-
|give.Pst||Morag||a book||to Bill||
|-
|colspan="4"|'Morag gave a book to Bill.'
|}

7. (Ungrammatical!)
:{|
|*Thug||Morag||'''Bill'''||leabhar
|-
|give.Pst||Morag||Bill||a book
|-
|colspan="4"|'Morag gave Bill a book.'
|}

==See Also==
[[Valence (definition)]]
[[Double Object Constructions (definition)]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnIndirectObject.htm SIL entry on indirect object]
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_object#Types_of_object

==References==

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-[[Double Object Constructions (definition)]]
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