Text this: Structural motivations for the fronting of patient nouns

  ____      ______    _____     _____    _    _   
 |  _ \\   /_   _//  /  ___||  |  ___|| | || | || 
 | |_| ||   -| ||-  | // __    | ||__   | || | || 
 | .  //    _| ||_  | \\_\ ||  | ||__   | \\_/ || 
 |_|\_\\   /_____//  \____//   |_____||  \____//  
 `-` --`   `-----`    `---`    `-----`    `---`