The approach to Subject and Object assignment in Dik<s Functional Grammaris one of the most controversial aspects of the theory. Dik (1997) formulates auniversal hierarchy of semantic functions determining accessibility to theSubject and Object functions. The icut-off pointj for Object assignment inEnglish is established after the Beneficiary. However, it is my contention thatObject assignment is not restricted to Goal, Recipient and Beneficiary terms.As I will try to illustrate in this paper, there are other more marginal possibilitiesthat suggest that the productivity of Object assigment is a matter of degree (cf.Brdar and Brdar Szabó 1993).