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
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Publication date:
1.12.2015.
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