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The double-object construction has a dative alternate: I sent him a parcel can also be expressed as I sent a parcel to him with no particular change in meaning. The order of the theme and goal/beneficiary arguments are different and there are also differences in how the structures can be passivised: in the double-object construction only the indirect object can be passivised, if we want o passivise the direct object we have to use the dative structure and express the goal argument in the form of a PP.