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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Datives"”.
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Datives at large
This dissertation is a study of the syntactic and semantic properties of dative arguments. The main source of data is Spanish, where dative arguments can appear with all types of verbs, and can have a wide range of meanings: goal, possessor, source, experiencer, affected object, causee, location, …
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Aspekte des Dativs : Zur Relation zwischen der Dativ-DP und der Ereignisstruktur der Verben in ditransitiven Konstruktionen im Deutschen
… and the free beneficiary and possessor datives are usually treated the same (with few exceptions): either as arguments of a layered VP-structure, adjuncts or arguments of applicative heads. Even their case is often considered to be licensed in the same way. There are suggestions that …
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Dative arguments and abstract Case in Greek
… person restrictions in transitive contexts with datives and beyond (Chapter 2), which seem to be best accounted for if the argument affected by the restriction is treated as a (defective) intervener between the dative and an applicative head; the interference of (different types of) datives …
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A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals
… valency of the verb, the so-called non-selected datives. The analysis of the dative in ditransitive constructions is twofold. We claim that the distribution of the dative in such configurations has semantic and syntactic implications. The presence of the dative pronoun is becoming grammaticalised …
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… phenomenon.</p> <p>The study of non-argumental datives encounters difficulties at different levels: at a descriptive/empirical as well as at a theoretical level. From a descriptive point of view, there are no, so far in the literature, clear syntactic tests to divide these two groups of …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… oral discourses. Third person dative clitics and datives with the roles of benefactive and source are accepted in written and formal register but are not produced in oral and colloquial discourse by BP native speakers. Possessor datives are no longer available in the BP grammar. This indicates …
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Ateso Grammar: A descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic Language
… namely, causatives, ventives, itives, datives, iterative, passives and instrumentals. Regarding its syntactic structure, as a VS/VO language, Ateso allows for a complete clause made up of an inflected verb only, or an inflected verb followed by one or two NPs/or an NP and a pronoun. The …