TY - BOOK AU - Mateu,Jaume AU - Pineda,Anna TI - Dative constructions in Romance and beyond T2 - Open Generative Syntax SN - 9783961102501 PB - Language Science Press KW - Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics KW - bisacsh KW - Language arts KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - This book offers a comprehensive account of dative structures across languages -with an important, though not exclusive, focus on the Romance family. As is well-known, datives play a central role in a variety of structures, ranging from ditransitive constructions to cliticization of indirect objects and differentially marked direct objects, and including also psychological predicates, possessor or causative constructions, among many others. As interest in all these topics has increased significantly over the past three decades, this volume provides an overdue update on the state of the art. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume account for both widely discussed patterns of dative constructions as well as those that are relatively unknown UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/686bb148-944e-4baf-911a-7f569bbfed88 ER -