The umbrella semantic role recipient and its two variants

The article discusses certain characteristics of sentences with dative and accusative objects, which concern the semantic role assigned to the dative object. This role can be understood either as the intended recipient of the accusative object (recipient) or as the recipient of the ac­tion expressed by the verb together with the accusative object (beneficiary). Furthermore, the article examines two properties of sentences with recipients or beneficiaries. The first relates to the inherent meaning of the verb and describes the fact that some ditransitive verbs allow only the recipient meaning and not the beneficiary meaning of the dative object. The second concerns word order: the ambiguity between recipient and beneficiary of the dative object arises under neutral intonation only in the word order dative>>accusative, but not in the word order accusative>>dative, where only the recipient participant role appears.