The French ethical dative. 13 syntactic tests

We discuss the properties of ethical datives in French, assembling diagnostics to differentiate them from other datives and to establish their properties. Ethical datives are introduced above the thematic and Case/A-movement domains, and do not participate in these systems, unlike both core and exte...

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Main Authors: Mélanie Jouitteau, Milan Rezac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2007-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_french_ethical_dative._13_syntactic_tests