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Covert nominative and dative subjects in Faroese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009 This paper presents the results of a recent survey of dative subjects in Faroese, using a judgment task and data elicited from interviews with native speakers.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
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The derivation of dative alternations [PDF]
, 2010 This paper argues for an updated version of the classical derivational approach to Double Object Constructions and dative constructions across languages. We show that the arguments to postulate a non-derivational approach do not hold and that, in fact, such an approach runs into unsolvable problems. We argue that the structural alternation is triggered
Ormazabal Zamakona, Javier, Romero, Juan
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Dative Alternation and Dative Case Syncretism in Greek: The Use of Dative, Accusative and Prepositional Phrases in Documentary Papyri [PDF]
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2016 AbstractThis paper explores the evidence for dative case syncretism with personal pronouns in post‐Classical Greek based on documentary papyri (300BCE–800CE). Three alternative encodings are examined for the animate goal of transfer verbs: the prepositionsprósandeis(with accusative) and the bare accusative case. It is shown that the dative case and the
Joanne Vera Stolk, Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Dative-nominative alterations in Germanic languages. A generative prespective
Lingue e Linguaggi, 2013 This paper focuses on the conditions under which dative–nominative alternations take place, mainly within the Germanic family, with a view to illuminate the nature of dative case cross-linguistically.
A. Alexiadou +2 more
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The Dative Markers and Their Developments in Hunan Sinitic Languages
LanguagesThis study is based on a sample of 30 Sinitic languages spoken in the Hunan Province. Its first objective is to explore the types of dative markers, comparing the form of the dative with allative, passive, benefactive, and differential object markers in ...
Xinyi Gao
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Glossa, 2018 In some languages with DOM, the exponents of DOM and dative are homophonous, e.g. in Spanish and Hindi. I argue that this pattern is not due to DOM objects and indirect objects being represented identically in syntax, but due to syncretism between ...
András Bárány
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A look at High Applicatives in Romanian: dative experiencers
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009 Romanian has both Low Applicative Phrases and High Applicative Phrases. At present, Romanian dative experiencers are High Applicatives with a dative phrase as specifier, and an (obligatory) dative clitic as head.
María Luisa Rivero
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Demarcating Emai dative constructions
Studies in African Linguistics, 2013 This paper investigates the formal and functional character of a dative relation and two additional structural relations in Emai, an Edoid language of West Benue Congo stock (Bendor-Samuel 1989, Williamson and Blench 2000). Each relation is grammatically
Ronald P. Schaefer
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A syntactic-semantic analysis of English (non)-dativizable constructions in the production of a set of 2L1 English/Spanish simultaneous bilingual twins [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyzes the syntactico-semantic factors which trigger Dative shift in English dativizable verbs, i.e. those verbs that allow alternation between double object and prepositional complement constructions.
Fernandez Fuertes, Raquel +1 more
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Іноземна філологія, 2022 This paper presents a comparative study of Ukrainian sentences with Dative experiencer and their English equivalents. While Ukrainian allows null-subject sentences, in English there is a structural subject it.
Kunets, Khrystyna
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