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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Willy Van Langendonck (University of Leuven) , William Van Belle (University of Leuven)Publisher: Benjamins (John) North America Inc.,US Imprint: Benjamins (John) North America Inc.,US Volume: 3 Weight: 0.700kg ISBN: 9781556196775ISBN 10: 1556196776 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 15 September 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews[...] a stimulating piece of work since it covers the central theoretical perspectives and problems. -- Tomoko O. Hansen, Department of East European and Oriental Studies, University of Oslo, Norway Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |