![]() They follow Croft (1998) in assuming that the internal order of the arguments is determined by the causal conceptual structure of each predicate and the force-dynamic relations holding between the participants of the event denoted by the predicate (cf. iiemus naudinga buwo them.DAT necessary was.3SG 'they had a need'Īs argued by Eythorsson & Barðdal (2005: 827-832) and Barðdal & Eythorsson (2012a) who discuss several subject properties in the Germanic languages, the common denominator of the arguments which pass the subject tests in these languages is that they are the first or leftmost argument of their verbs' argument structure. DAT necessary is.3SG 'I have a need'Īncient Greek c. Eythorsson & Barðdal 2005, Barðdal & Eythorsson 2012a). ![]() ![]() With the term Dative Subject Construction, we refer to argument structure constructions instantiated by predicates where the first argument is in the dative case and not in the canonical nominative case (cf.
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