TY - JOUR
TI - The Balkan Dative revisited
AU - Topolińska, Zuzanna
AU - Bužarovska, Eleni
TI - The Balkan Dative revisited
AB - The authors are interested in the semantic (= not formal) evolution of the dative case relationship. They carry their analysis in the framework of the anthropocentric case theory and argue that the referent of the dative NP (NPD) is the second (in the communicative hierarchy) human protagonist of the event (beneficiens and/or experiencer). Also the D ~ G opposition is analyzed on the semantic plane, with the referent of the NPG interpreted as the possessor in contexts when the possessor – possessum relation is realized at the level of a NP, and not at the sentential level. The syntactic, adverbal vs. adnominal position is understood as the basic, definitional difference between NPD and NPG at the formal plane. 
VL - Volume 6 (2011)
IS - Vol. 6, Issue 1
PY - 2011
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 139
EP - 151
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/the-balkan-dative-revisited
KW - dative
KW - genitive
KW - anthropocentricity
KW - beneficiens
KW - experiencer
KW - possessor
KW - possessum