Full Description
Variation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives. The papers in this volume examine different aspects of internal variation in dative marking, such as agreement and case alternations, distribution of adpositional structures and dative case-marking, the different structural positions of dative arguments and their semantic contribution, and patterns of syncretism in the clitic and/or agreement system. Interest in these topics has grown significantly in the past 20 years. Variation in Datives makes a significant contribution to our understanding of language variation, as it adds the micro-comparative perspective to the general discussion and includes 10 new articles on a wide range of European languages, including Greek, Basque, Icelandic, and Serbo-Croatian.
Variation in Datives will appeal to scholars and advanced students of syntax, linguistic variation, and especially syntactic micro-variation.
Contents
Contents ; Introduction ; Beatriz Fernandez and Ricardo Etxepare ; 1. Evaluative reflexions: evaluative dative reflexive in South East Serbo-Croatian ; Arsenijevic Boban (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ; 2. Core and non-core datives in French ; Nora Boneh and Lea Nash (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem / Univ. of Paris VIII) ; 3. Datives and adpositions in North-Eastern Basque ; Etxepare Ricardo and Bernard Oyharcabal (IKER) ; 4. Case in disguise ; Freyr Sigurdsson, Einar and Hlif Arnadottir (Univ.of Iceland) ; 5. Dative vs. accusative and the nature of non-structural case ; Gisli Jonsson, Johannes (Univ. of Iceland) ; 6. Ideal speakers and other speakers. The case of dative and some other cases ; Hoskuldur Thrainsson (Univ. of Iceland) ; 7. Dative versus feminine: The syntax of a syncretism pattern ; Leu Tom (Yale University) ; 8. Syntactic micro-variation: Dative constructions in Greek ; Michelioudakis, Dimitris and Ioanna Sitaridou (Univ. of Cambridge) ; 9. Dative displacement in Basque ; Rezac, Milan and Beatriz Fernandez (Univ. of Paris VIII / UPV/EHU) ; 10. Accusative feminine datives ; Romero Juan (Univ. of Caceres)
