My students also often bring up the IO terminology problem. I tell them 
it is a matter of different use of terminology by different analysts. 
Then I tell them I will use IO to refer only to the noun phrase 
following the verb, not the PP.

That leaves the question of what to call the PP. I'd like to say it's 
adverbial, but it doesn't fit the structural diagnostics for adverbials. 
For instance, adverbials answer "when, where, why, how, and for what 
purpose" questions. PP-IO's don't answer such questions; the questions 
for such PPs are "who(m) did you give it to' or "who(m) did you make it 
for".

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Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
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