Datives and Other Cases
Between argument structure and event structure
Editors
This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new areas of research. A recurrent feature of the majority of contributions is their combined syntax-semantics perspective. Germanic varieties, Serbian, Albanian and other Balkan languages alongside Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog are discussed from various theoretical angles such as mainstream generativism, lexical-functional grammar, and functional typology. Despite the broad range of facts spanning the distance between acquisition data and dialectology, the papers are connected by a renewed interest in form-function correspondencies. This volume will be welcomed by theoretical linguists and typologists with an interest in argument and event structure, linguists studying the case systems of individual languages and researchers in search for up-to-date discussion of Germanic datives.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 75] 2006. viii, 385 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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I INTRODUCTION
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Datives: structural vs. inherent — abstract vs. morphological — autonomous vs. combinatory — universally vs. language-specifically configuredWerner Abraham | pp. 3–46
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II FOCUS ON GERMANIC
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German inherent datives and argument structureThomas McFadden | pp. 49–77
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Remarks on the projection of dative arguments in GermanAndré Meinunger | pp. 79–101
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Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) — A view from GermanPatrick Brandt | pp. 103–139
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The datives that aren’t born equal: Beneficiaries and the dative passivePhilippa Cook | pp. 141–184
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The interpretation of German datives and English haveAndrew McIntyre | pp. 185–211
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Dative and indirect object in German dialects: Evidence from relative clausesJürg Fleischer | pp. 213–238
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Indirect objects and Dative case in monolingual German and bilingual German/Romance language acquisitionKatrin Schmitz | pp. 239–268
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III BEYOND GERMANIC: FROM ALBANIAN TO TAGALOG
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Unaccusatives with dative causers and experiencers: A unified accountDalina Kallulli | pp. 271–300
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Putting things into perspective: The function of the dative in adjectival constructions in SerbianJelena Krivokapic | pp. 301–329
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Widening the perspective: Argumenthood and syntax in Chinese, Japanese and TagalogWalter Bisang | pp. 331–381
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Index | pp. 383–385
“This volume is a much-needed overview of the current take on datives from a number of different theoretical perspectives. Datives and Other Cases will certainly appeal to linguists interested in the German dative but also to non-Germanicists who are concerned with finding the right analysis, both syntactic and semantic, of datives in other languages.”
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Swarthmore College, in Studies in Language 32:1, 2008
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General