directobjectlike
Directobjectlike is a label used in linguistics to describe arguments that fill an object-like role in a clause but do not always behave as canonical direct objects across languages or theoretical frameworks. The term is commonly employed in cross-linguistic typology, corpus annotation, and discussions of transitivity and valence.
Such elements typically carry a patient or theme semantic role, participate in transitive relations with a
Cross-linguistically, languages may exhibit directobjectlike arguments in constructions such as resultatives, predicative complements, or certain complex
Directobjectlike is not a universally standardized term and overlaps with concepts such as oblique objects, object