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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459681603321

Titolo

Theoretical and contrastive studies [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Willy van Langendonck, William van Belle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998

ISBN

1-283-12177-8

9786613121776

90-272-8473-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Case and grammatical relations across languages ; ; v. 3

The dative ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BelleWilliam van

LangendonckWilly van

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Case

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE DATIVE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Recipients and 'give' constructions; The possessive dative in Romance and Germanic languages; The case of the causee On the competition between dative and accusative in Dutch laten and German lassen constructions; Meanings of the dative case in Old English; The Dative as participant role versus the Indirect Object On the need to distinguish two layers of organization; The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch; The dative in Latin and the indirect object in Dutch

From form to interpretation: Building up the 'dative'-rolesSubject index

Sommario/riassunto

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



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