Publications

Publication details [#10525]

Bolkestein, A. Machtelt and Rodie Risselada. 1987. The pragmatic motivation of syntactic and semantic perspective. In Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertucelli-Papi, eds. The pragmatic perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. John Benjamins. pp. 497–512.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

dative shift | functional explanation | functionalism | grammatical choice | voice2

Language as a subject

Latin

Annotation

An examination of the degree to which alternative syntactic constructions for representing more or less the same content from a different perspective (in particular the matters of choice of voice and dative shift) is functionally motivated in a language like classical Latin.