Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish

Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish presents an easy-to-understand approach to all aspects of direct and indirect objects in Spanish.

Luis H. González is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Wake Forest University, USA. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of research are semantic roles, case, reflexivization, clitic doubling, differential object marking, dichotomies in languages, Spanish linguistics, and second language learning. He has written and co-authored six successful titles on these topics.

Chapter 1: Subject and direct object or verber and verbed? Chapter 2: Distinguishing some direct objects from an indirect object can be a puzzle; distinguishing a verbed from a verbee is an inference that always works Chapter 3: Against the need for 11 or more types of dative sentences in Spanish and in other languages Chapter 4: A pronoun does not double its indirect object; the latter drops when it is known information in postverbal position