Editing Ditransitive verb (section)

==Morphosyntactic alignment==
The [[morphosyntactic alignment]] between arguments of monotransitive and ditransitive verbs is explained below. If the three arguments of a typical ditransitive verb are labeled D (for Donor; the subject of a verb like "to give" in English), T (for Theme; normally the direct object of ditransitive verb in English) and R (for Recipient, normally the indirect object in English), these can be aligned with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language is [[Nominative–accusative language|nominative–accusative]], [[Ergative–absolutive language|ergative–absolutive]], or [[Active–stative language|active–stative]].  Donor is always or nearly always in the same [[Grammatical case|case]] as Agent, but different languages equate the other arguments in different ways:{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

* Indirective languages: D&nbsp;=&nbsp;A, T&nbsp;=&nbsp;P, with a third case for R
* [[Secundative language|Secundative]] languages: D&nbsp;=&nbsp;A, R&nbsp;=&nbsp;P (the 'primary object'), with a third case for T (the 'secondary object')
* Neutral or double-object languages: D&nbsp;=&nbsp;A, T&nbsp;=&nbsp;R&nbsp;=&nbsp;P
* Split-P languages: D&nbsp;=&nbsp;A, some monotransitive clauses have P&nbsp;=&nbsp;T, others have P&nbsp;=&nbsp;R