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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 3] 2011
► pp. 19–38
When the benefit is on the fringe
Nora Boneh | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lea Nash | Université Paris 8
This paper shows that French non-core datives introduced by applicative heads may attach at two different positions above the VP. If the Appl head attaches in the thematic domain, above V but below v, a new event participant is added; we refer to this configuration as the Benefactive Dative Construction. If the Appl head is attached above v, in a non-thematic environment, it does not introduce a new event participant, hence its deficient realization as se, to which configuration we refer as the Coreferential Dative Construction. We provide arguments against a low-applicative analysis (below VP), and show how to distinguish between the two types of applicative constructions (above VP) both semantically and syntactically.
Published online: 30 November 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.3.02bon
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.3.02bon
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