Baker's paradox

Etymology
Named after the linguist C. L. Baker.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The apparent paradox that children learning English encounter many sentences amenable to  (e.g. "give the book to me" &rarr; "give me the book") but apparently have no way to learn that this is not possible with certain verbs (e.g. "*donate me the book" is unacceptable), and yet rarely make this kind of error.