Maximi Planudis in memoriam. Pt. I
- In: Kiefer, Ferenc (1973). Generative grammar in Europe. 20-47. Dordrecht: Reidel.
- Under the heading of 'Datives' as locatives, part I of Maximi Planudis in memoriam is concerned with the interpretation of 'datives'/'indirect objects'. Pursuing a suggestion on the analysis of causatives in Anderson's The grammar of case (1971: §11.4), the discussion here interprets 'transfer' verbs as lexically complex such that they conflate a causative and a dependent directional predicate head. The so-called 'indirect object' term of such verbs originates as a loc(ative) ('goal') argument of the directional component predicate. With 'transfer' verbs participating in the 'dative alternation' the locative argument is optionally co-labelled erg(ative): loc,erg(ative) ('recipient'). In essence, then, the 'dative alternation' is available with verbs which project both of (i) and (ii),
(i) x CAUSE Ø [y GO TO z]
(ii) x CAUSE Ø [z RECEIVE y]
where z = loc in (i) and loc,erg in (ii), and Ø designates the 'empty' absolutive 'slot' of the causative component predicator which has associated with it the y = absolutive ('theme') or z = loc,erg ('recipient') argument of the dependent predicator. The analysis of the 'double object' construction sketched out in Maximi Planudis ... is pursued in a considerable body of later NG work, including Anderson (1975, 1977, 1978, 1984, and 1997). Its conceptual core has been re-invented under various terminological and architectural guises in much recent work outside NG. - 12 pages, 253kb
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Anderson, John M.
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1 973
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NG
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