receiver of the direct object

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Sources

• QUIRK etal. 1985 741 (recipient participant)

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• WALES 1989 126 (recipient of the action)

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 253

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.