Original scientific paper

What Can Cognitive Grammar Say About So-Called Dative Subjects?

Branimir Belaj orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-9673 ; Faculty of humanities and social sciences at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Using the methodology of Cognitive Grammar, this paper addresses the syntactic role of dative-marked complements with the semantic role of experiencer in two types of impersonal constructions. The first construction type features a predicate with a copula verb and an adverb or adverbialized noun. The second type are constructions whose predicates include verbs denoting various psychological and physiological processes. We also discuss the syntactic function of the dative in modal constructions of necessity with dative-marked experiencers as infinitival complements.

Keywords

dative subjects; indirect object; impersonal constructions; dative with infinitive

Hrčak ID:

164431

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/164431

Publication date:

1.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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