NoRecM: Ditransitive verbs do not morphologically mark the person of the recipient.

(1a) āŋki ńēwrem-əʌ ńāń-at mə-ʌ.

mother child-3sg bread-ins give-prs.3sg

‘The mother is giving bread to the child.’ (L. N. K.)

(1b) āŋki ʌüw-at ńāń-at mə-ʌ-təɣ.

mother (s)he-acc bread-ins give-prs-obj.3sg

‘The mother is giving bread to me.’ (L. N. K.)

(2a) āŋki ńēwrem-a ńāń mə-ʌ.

mother child-lat bread give-prs.3sg

‘The mother is giving bread to the child.’ (L. N. K.)

(2b) āŋki ʌüwati-ja ńāń mə-ʌ.

mother (s)he-dat bread give-prs.3sg

‘The mother is giving bread to him/her.’ (L. N. K.)

(3a) āŋki-nə ńēwrem ńāń-at mə-ʌ-i.

mother-loc child bread-ins give-prs-pass.3sg

‘The mother is giving bread to the child.’ (L. N. K.)

(3b) āŋki-nə mā ńāń-at mə-ʌ-oj-əm.

mother I bread-ins give-prs-pass-1sg

‘The mother is giving bread to me.’ (L. N. K.)

In Surgut Khanty, ditransitive verbs have two argument structures. In the typical construction, the nominal recipient takes the nominative case ending (1a), while pronominal recipients are marked with the accusative (1b). The object is always marked with the -at instructive-finalis suffix (1a), (1b). In the other construction (which is less frequent), the recipient can be a lative marked noun (2a) or a dative personal pronoun (2b), and the object is in the nominative. In this parameter value, only active sentences were considered, but it has to be noted that passive constructions are extremely common in the Ob-Ugric languages. In the passive variant of ditransitive constructions, the recipient is in the nominative and the verbal suffix is coreferent with it (3a), (3b), which means that the verb form specifies the person of the recipient.