Abstract
This thesis mainly studies double-object construction, also called ditransitive construction, which is a construction in which a verb phrase takes two noun phrases as complements, in Taiwanese Southern Min.“Construction Grammar” is the based theoretical framework in this thesis, which states that constructions are form-meaning correspondences existing independently of particular verbs. Sometimes, meanings of the forms cannot be expected solely from the composition of complements in the sentence because constructions denote meanings themselves, and they can assign the verb a different meaning and syntactic representation.That is the reason why an intransitive verb or a monotransitive verb in conceptual structure takes two complements in some construction. On the other hand, a ditransitive verb may syntactically surface monotransitively or even intransitively because of the need of omitting the mentioned messages. The thesis is structured as follows: Chapter 1 is the introduction; Chapter 2 reviews some literature about ditransitive structures and summarizes the theoretical framework; Chapter 3 presents the data of ditransitve sentences in Taiwanese Southern Min and divides them into five types, depending on semantic properties and syntactic representations of the sentences; Chapter 4 discusses some related issues about ditransitive construction; and Chapter 5 concludes the thesis and some further discussions presented.