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Variables in the Equation of beneficiary givenness
B S.E.
Wald df
Sig. ExpB 95 C.I.for
EXPB Lower Upper
Step 1
a
beneficiarygivenness 5.010
.601 69.429 1 .000 149.860 46.123 486.919
Constant -5.920
.655 81.614 1 .000
.003 a. Variables entered on step 1: beneficiarygivenness.
Table 4.5 Variable givenness of beneficiary removed from full model
4.1.2 Animacy of Beneficiary
The second significant feature
animacy of beneficiary
was coded to categorical variable in the logistic model beneficiary=animate is 1, and
beneficiary=inanimate is 2 See Appendices 1 and 2 for the detailed identification and annotating process of the benefactive data. The default of the
feature is inanimate, whereas the default of the benefactive construction is benefactive PP. The p value of the feature animacy of beneficiary reaches the
number 0.035 See Table 4.3 and Appendix 3 which is less than the conventional significance level 0.05. Thus, the feature animacy of beneficiary is proven to be
relevant to the choice of benefactive construction. The crosstabulation table of animacy of beneficiary toward ditransitivity
shows that 98 of inanimate beneficiary take benefactive PP construction, only the rest 2 of inanimate beneficiary take double object construction. Conversely,
51.8 of animate beneficiary take double object construction, and the rest 48.2 take benefactive PP construction. Both statistics say that animate argument comes
before inanimate one.
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Animacy of Beneficiary toward Ditransitivity Crosstabulation
Ditransitivity Total
benefactive construction
prepositional construction
Animacy of Beneficiary
animate beneficiary
Count 155
144 299
within Animacy of Beneficiary 51.8
48.2 100.0 within Ditransitivity
98.7 59.3
74.8 of Total
38.8 36.0
74.8 inanimate
beneficiary Count
2 99
101 within Animacy of Beneficiary
2.0 98.0 100.0
within Ditransitivity 1.3
40.7 25.3
of Total .5
24.8 25.3
Total Count
157 243
400 within Animacy of Beneficiary
39.3 60.8 100.0
within Ditransitivity 100.0
100.0 100.0 of Total
39.3 60.8 100.0
Table 4.6 Crosstabulation of animacy of beneficiary toward ditransitivity
In addition, the result shows that the feature animacy of beneficiary possesses positive coefficient B of 2.268. It means that the default inanimate
beneficiary favors the default benefactive PP construction. The size of the effect of the feature is explainable through the odds ratio expB of 9.657. It suggests
that inanimate beneficiary is more than 9 times likely to take benefactive PP construction rather than animate beneficiary. The 95 confidence interval CI
supports the claim, showing that inanimate beneficiary tends to choose benefactive PP construction between 1.175 to 79.383 times. Conversely, if the
beneficiary is animate, the sentence will tend to appear in the double object construction. The coefficient B, odds ratio expB, and 95 CI above are
presented in Table 4.3 See also Appendix 3. The examples below illustrate the
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probability of the occurrence of instances possessing inanimate and animate beneficiary.
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a. getting water for their shipping inanimate
