The Dative
Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 1998
XVI, 296 pages
978-90-272-8473-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 or other kinds of meaning).
Most contributions in this volume represent cognitive and functional views or a critical discussion of them.
As in the first volume, the linguistic material mainly stems from Germanic and Romance languages. Contemporary English is the basis for Davidse's theoretical claims; Pasicki studies the dative in Old English. Dutch appears especially in Geeraerts' semantic analysis, but also in the papers by Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Van Langendonck. Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Melis also take German into consideration. Latin is dealt with by Melis and Van Langendonck. Modern Romance languages, especially French, provide further data for Melis and Lamiroy & Delbecque. Finally, Newman adduces a variety of languages for his typological analyses.
Most contributions in this volume represent cognitive and functional views or a critical discussion of them.
As in the first volume, the linguistic material mainly stems from Germanic and Romance languages. Contemporary English is the basis for Davidse's theoretical claims; Pasicki studies the dative in Old English. Dutch appears especially in Geeraerts' semantic analysis, but also in the papers by Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Van Langendonck. Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Melis also take German into consideration. Latin is dealt with by Melis and Van Langendonck. Modern Romance languages, especially French, provide further data for Melis and Lamiroy & Delbecque. Finally, Newman adduces a variety of languages for his typological analyses.
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Content
- THE DATIVE
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Recipients and 'give' constructions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Agent and Patient
- 3. Beyond the object
- 4. The significance of schematic networks
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The possessive dative in Romance and Germanic languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The parameters
- 3. The data
- 4. The possessive vs the ethical dative
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The case of the causee On the competition between dative and accusative in Dutch laten and German lassen constructions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Preliminaries
- 3. Synchronic variation in laten/lassen constructions
- 4. Diachronic retrospective
- 5. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Meanings of the dative case in Old English
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Approaching the meaning of OE dative
- 3. The dative at its most concrete
- 4. Less concrete spaces
- 5. Dative recipients, at last
- or are they just that?
- 6. Janus-faced adjectives (and a noun or two)
- 7. Ulterior goals
- 8. Impersonal constructions
- 9. Dative possessors
- 10. Instrumental datives
- 11. Some problem cases
- 12. Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The Dative as participant role versus the Indirect Object On the need to distinguish two layers of organization
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Subject - Object(s) layer of organization
- 3. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch
- 1. Aims and background of the exercise
- 2. The overall structure of the analysis
- 3. Extension 1: Generalization
- 4. Extension 2: Metaphorization
- 5. Extension 3: Metonymy
- 6. Extension 4: Subjectification
- 7. Extension 5: Perspectival switching
- 9. The resulting picture
- 10. Further steps to be taken
- 11. Conclusion and discussion
- Acknowledgement
- REFERENCES
- The dative in Latin and the indirect object in Dutch
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Towards a description of dative and IO in terms of semantic roles and some cognitive operations
- 3. Classification of dative/IO constructions in Latin and Dutch according to the role configurations
- 4. Discussion and conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- ABBREVIATIONS OF SOURCES
- From form to interpretation: Building up the 'dative'-roles
- 1. The dative in Latin and German
- 2. Two ways to 'dative' roles in French
- 3. Structural and thematic factors in construction grammar
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Subject index
