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The Dative radial category in Old Church Slavonic and Modern Russian
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2021 In this paper, the semantic roles expressed by the Dative case in Modern Russian and Old Church Slavonic are described in terms of radial categories. The corpus data shows that the radial category of the Dative case has changed since Old Church Slavonic.
Ekaterina Voloshina
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Dative as the unmarked unmarked case in Hungarian
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 Hungarian nominative and dative DPs alternate in particular constructions. We show standard theory, where cases are licensed by heads, is unable to cope with the data and present a different analysis of the distribution of these cases within Dependent ...
Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi
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Decomposing Spanish dative clitics
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021 In Spanish, dative clitics have standardly been analyzed differently from accusative ones. The apparent different constraints that regulate each of these clitic doubling constructions have been at the base of the differing analyses.
Adolfo Ausin +1 more
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Dative alternation in Indian English: a corpus-based study [PDF]
, 2013 The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction (I give my sister a book) vs. the to-dative construction (I give a book to my sister).
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Glossa, 2018 In case-marking languages like German, nonstandard nominative-dative verbs lead to enhanced processing costs. So far, it is unclear if these case-marking effects reflect the special syntax or semantics of nominative-dative verbs.
Anna Czypionka, Carsten Eulitz
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Attitude dative (dativus ethicus) as an interpersonal pragmatic marker in Latvian
Open Linguistics, 2023 Among varied syntactic and semantic functions of the dative case in Latvian, the attitude dative or dativus ethicus is a less studied one. As an optional pronominal clitic, it serves two broad functions: first, it expresses the speaker’s authority and ...
Kalnača Andra, Lokmane Ilze
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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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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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Dative experiencers and (null) subjects in Peninsular Spanish infinitives
Isogloss, 2022 Dative experiencers have been argued to have certain subject properties in finite domains. The question thus arises whether they can ever be controlled like structural (null) subjects.
Peter Herbeck
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]
, 2003 This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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