The verbs in this class are all members of a larger class -- verbs of change of possession (section 13 of Levin text). In many cases the sense of possession in this larger class is broadly construed; e.g. in Sally administers the medicine to Fred , administers function as a verb of this class, even though Sally may not *own* the medicine she is administering. The give verb class is differentiated from the ContributeVerbClass (also a class of verbs of change of possession) syntactically; the contribute verbs do not allow the dative alternation while the give verbs do. When verbs of this class appear with a prepositional phrase, the phrase must begin with to . Note that one may also make a case for a subtle semantic difference between the two; the give verbs all involve a voluntary transfer of possession by the subject (i.e. possibly has benefits for the giver) while the contribute verbs, many of them at least, involve a possibly reluctant transfer of possession (e.g. relinquish, reimburse, restore, etc. as opposed to give, feed, lease, etc.).