The dative construction is a grammatical way of constructing a sentence using the dative case. A sentence is also said to be in dative construction if...
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(Hindi-Urdu), the dative case can also mark the subject of a sentence. This is called the dative construction. In Hindi, the dative construction is not limited...
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form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative (OD) form, the verb takes a noun phrase (NP) and a dative prepositional phrase (PP)...
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grammar, a double dative is the combination of a dative of reference with a dative of purpose. A common translation is "As a (dative of purpose) with reference...
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The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases...
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A reciprocal construction (abbreviated RECP) is a grammatical pattern in which each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with...
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their perpetrators; especially financially. The phrase is a double dative construction. It can also be rendered as cui prodest? ("whom does it profit?")...
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Nominative case (category Grammatical construction types)
is then used for the oblique case, which covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually called the...
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In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...
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ಆಡುವೆನು.') In Kannada, the dative construction is used often. The dative construction occurs when the semantic subject is in the dative case and semantic direct...
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rosae, rosae, rosam, rosa, rosā ("rose", in the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative and ablative). Categories can also pertain to sentence...
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has a syntactic function other than subject. This happens in raising constructions, such as the following: Here, you is the object of the make verb phrase...
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direct object in a "dative of interest" type of construction (cf. English "My car broke down on me"), as well as in constructions involving intransitive...
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that have case systems, objects are marked by certain cases (accusative, dative, genitive, instrumental, etc.). Languages vary significantly with respect...
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Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure...
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Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure...
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http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/001100. Larson, R. 1988. On the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19, 335–392. Payne, T. 2006. Exploring language structure:...
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singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter), and a number of other grammatical...
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the nominative, accusative (including functions formerly handled by the dative) and genitive cases. They are used with personal pronouns: subjective case...
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German, comparable with English and Ancient Greek, with a construction of mit (with) + dative clause (in English, the objective case is used). For example:...
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Possession (linguistics) (redirect from Possessive construction)
Structures. Retrieved 26 February 2011. Alienable vs. inalienable possessive constructions eva.mpg.de Retrieved 2 July 2023 Mithun, Marianne (1999). The Languages...
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Bolognese dialect (section Dative construction)
tgnän lavurèr devo andare a far la spesa = a téggn andèr a fèr la spaiṡa 3. dative pronoun + tuchèr (conjugated) + (e)d + verb (experiencing an external event)...
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definitive article al- (الـ) or a possessive pronoun suffix forming an iḍāfa construction. Adjectives describing definite nouns are also marked with the definitive...
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subject position). Tagmemes combine to form a syntagmeme, a syntactic construction consisting of a sequence of tagmemes. Tagmemics as a linguistic methodology...
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as the subject in this sentence. Certain verbs in German also require a dative or accusative object instead of a nominative subject, e.g. Mir me-DAT graut...
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