Aristotle would call the point of a thing its energeia or its ergon, its being-at-work, its manner of most actively being itself and displaying itself for what it is in itself, and we can serve as
datives for such a display if we are up to the thing in question, in both our experience and our insight.
a) [+locational*goal]
datives, which were evidenced only with enviar, categorically appear as PPs;
However, in Y1, Vr 1, Y3, 4, 7, the same recipients of the acts of worship show a bewildering fluctuation between
dative and genitive inflections, even within the same formula.
(7.) Company (2001: 3) discusses in detail the "mixed formal and functional status" of
datives that locates them between full arguments and adjuncts.
Thus, to/for-
datives, as illustrated in (6a), are derived from DOCs as a result of the advancement of the OD to PO and by granting the PP to Mary a chomeur (or adjunct) position.
Benefactive
datives lend support to this hypothesis because the preposition para appears in the DOC, but not in the PPC (Cuervo, 2007), as (12) illustrates:
When looking again at the example of the involuntary agent construction in (7) one might be tempted to think that it looks very similar to free
datives in other languages (e.g.
This volume explores "use-conditional meaning." It purports to follow "empirical and theoretical studies of expression whose meaning falls outside standard realm of truth-conditional semantics." The nine essays give the truth about lies, including an introduction to varieties of use-conditional meaning, German non-inflectional constructions as separate performatives, modal particles and context shift, discourse particles and common ground (and felicity conditions), expressive mean free
datives and F-implications, good reasons (for conventional implication), common ground management through modal particles, illocution, biased polar questions in English and Japanese, and expressing surprise in particles.
This is what accounts for the necessarily complex lexical structure of the verb in simple sentences with distinct source of the action, absolutive, and locative arguments, including sentences with
datives or their equivalent.
There are only at most two incomplete dependencies of the same kind in processing (9) (two incomplete nominative-case / subject dependencies, two incomplete
datives), and so this sentence is easier to process.
This paper analyzes the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of
datives in sentences like Iskliznuo mi je tanjur iz ruke (lit.
My paraphrase of paragraph 5 (referred to above) tried to make sense of the
datives [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], here emended away to become the easier genitives, without trace in the text or notes.
