Original scientific paper

Dative Alternation in Croatian

Irena Zovko Dinković

Abstract

Dative alternation is fairly rare in case–marking languages. However, Croatian exhibits this
type of alternation with a small number of verbs. This paper analyzes the syntactic and
semantic characteristics of Croatian dative verbs and their arguments, based on data from
the Croatian National Corpus, and attempts to determine the most appropriate theoretical
framework for the description of dative alternation in Croatian. We prove that certain generalizations
about the dative alternation are valid cross–linguistically, but we also show that
this type of alternation exhibits many language specific features as well.

Keywords

dative alternation; functional syntax; Role and Reference Grammar; semantics; Croatian

Hrčak ID:

19459

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/19459

Publication date:

5.2.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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