Russian double object constructions revisited

The paper is a revision of the analysis of Russian double object constructions (DOC) (1) as laid out in Bailyn (1995). According to the latter DOC in Russian has a structure wherein an indirect object (IO) is asymmetrically c-commanded by a direct object (DO). In other words the underlying order of the arguments is DO> IO. I oppose Bailyn’s view and argue for the contrary, i.e. that the arguments are generated in the order IO> DO. I furthermore provide a link between the derivation of DOC and Possessive Sentences (PossS) (2). (1) Mama dala mne sovet. mother.NOM gave me.DAT advice.ACC ‘My mother gave me an advice.’ (2) U menya sobaka. PREP me.GEN dog.NOM ‘I have a dog.’ In the fist part of my talk, I defend the claim that an Indirect Object (IO) in Russian i