The Dative
Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies
Editors
This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the ‘Dative’. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category ‘Dative’ in eleven languages. The aim of this second part is to discuss several aspects of the Dative in greater detail. It contains eight papers dealing with theoretical considerations on ‘dativity’ as well as with contrastive, typological and diachronic issues. A major concern is the relation between form (case, grammatical relation) and meaning (semantic roles or other kinds of meaning).
Most contributions in this volume represent cognitive and functional views or a critical discussion of them.
As in the first volume, the linguistic material mainly stems from Germanic and Romance languages. Contemporary English is the basis for Davidse’s theoretical claims; Pasicki studies the dative in Old English. Dutch appears especially in Geeraerts’ semantic analysis, but also in the papers by Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Van Langendonck. Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Melis also take German into consideration. Latin is dealt with by Melis and Van Langendonck. Modern Romance languages, especially French, provide further data for Melis and Lamiroy & Delbecque. Finally, Newman adduces a variety of languages for his typological analyses.
Most contributions in this volume represent cognitive and functional views or a critical discussion of them.
As in the first volume, the linguistic material mainly stems from Germanic and Romance languages. Contemporary English is the basis for Davidse’s theoretical claims; Pasicki studies the dative in Old English. Dutch appears especially in Geeraerts’ semantic analysis, but also in the papers by Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Van Langendonck. Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Melis also take German into consideration. Latin is dealt with by Melis and Van Langendonck. Modern Romance languages, especially French, provide further data for Melis and Lamiroy & Delbecque. Finally, Newman adduces a variety of languages for his typological analyses.
[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 3] 1998. xvi, 296 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 May 2011
Published online on 9 May 2011
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Table of Contents
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List of abbreviations | p. ix
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introduction | p. xi
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Recipients and ‘give’ constructionsJohn Newman | p. 1
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The possessive dative in romance and Germanic languagesBéatrice Lamiroy and Nicole Delbecque | p. 29
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The case of the causee. On the competition between dative and accusative in Dutch laten and German lassen constructionsLuk Draye | p. 75
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Meanings of the dative case in Old EnglishAdam Pasicki | p. 113
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The dative as participant role versus the Indirect Object: on the need to distinguish two layers of organizationKristin Davidse | p. 143
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The semantic structure of the indirect object in DutchDirk Geeraerts | p. 185
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The dative in Latin and the indirect object in DutchWilly Van Langendonck | p. 211
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From form to interpretation: building up the ‘dative’-rolesLudo Melis | p. 261
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Subject index | p. 293
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