Vázquez González, Juan Gabriel2026-04-222026-04-222025Vázquez-González, J. G. (2025). More than meets the eye: Toward a reassess-ment of Old English double accusatives. ExELL, 56. https://doi.org/10.51558/2303-4858.2025.13.1.562303-4858 (electrónico)https://hdl.handle.net/10272/28225This article offers a corpus-based update of the Accusative-Accusative construction as part of a much-needed reanalysis of Old English double-object complementation. Unlike the better-known Dative-Accusative pattern—the basis for the Modern English ditransitive — double accusatives remain largely ignored because of their extremely low productivity. Using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, this study extends the body of evidence to a total of 30 verb types and 87 tokens, providing better precision. Apart from relating to speech act verbs and metaphorical transfer, double accusatives are now found operating as theme-recipients, beneficiaries, and, less frequently, as theme-goals or maleficiaries. This investigation proves their continuity through early and late Old English, attestation across many varieties and text types, and use in Latin-to-English morphosyntactic translation.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Old English ditransitivesNom-Acc-Acc subconstructionDictionary of Old English CorpusDiachronic Construction GrammarMorphosyntactic translationjournal article10.51558/2303-4858.2025.13.1.56open access5702 Lingüística Diacrónica