Inadditiontointroducingtheverysuccessfulpr… implicatures, Paul Grice and his successors
have assembled an arguably inchoate class of phenomena under the trade name of …

A familiar syntactic feature of dialectal (Southern and Appalachian) US English is the
optional occurrence of a nonsubcategorized “personal dative” pronominal in transitive …

This paper examines a cluster of phenomena in Mandarin Chinese, which may collectively
be characterized as “affective constructions”. Based on the diversified and sometimes hybrid …

This paper argues for a neo-Davidsonian voice approach in the spirit of Kratzer (1996, 2003)
to the syntax and semantics of dative arguments in German, and against syntactic or lexical …

This paper provides an analysis of the phenomenon commonly known as external
possession in the Bantu languages. On the basis of comparative data, I argue for a prototype …

In this paper we propose a syntactic analysis of dative DPs in ditransitive constructions in
Russian, answering three questions:(I) what semantic roles the indirect object realizes;(II) …

English, German, French and Dutch all exhibit a ditransitive construction in which the verb is
combined with a subject and two NP objects (either unmarked or with overt dative and/or …

In Romanian, direct objects realized as full definite descriptions denoting human entities in a
post-verbal position are often marked with the differential object marker pe. The literature …

This dissertation is a semantically oriented study of the functions of dative case, defined here
as a dependent marking strategy that is the prototypical exponent of the recipient in a …

This work presents the results of a series of acceptability judgment surveys conducted by the
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project (YGDP) between 2015 and 2019. It contains over 200 …