{"product_id":"the-english-dative-alternation-von-marie-louise-hafner","title":"The English dative alternation","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Most speakers of English are  unconsciously proficient in combining all kinds of information in order to form the grammatical structure they use for language production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this essay I attempt to describe one of these complex structures linguistically, namely the nature of dative verbs. Understanding the syntactic patterns of the verb is a challenging task ¿ not only for the acquisition of English as a second language, but for linguistic research just as much. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're occupied with transitive verbs that take more than one internal argument.There is a great number of alternations in English grammar which do not involve a change in the transitivity of the verb (Levin 1993), one of them being the Dative Alternation, which will be the topic of this essay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI will begin by introducing some general findings of research in this field whereupon a list of verbs will follow which presents groups of verbs that do or do not perform the alternation.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the core of my dissertation I will compare two different approaches on the subject, namely the works of Manfred Krifka and Rappaport Hovav \u0026amp; Levin. They represent two sites of the debate concerning the semantics of the dative alternation. Whilst the former defends the so-called polysemy view, the latter are enthusiastic for the single meaning approach. I will go into more detail in section 4. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the final analysis I'm going to introduce a brief study of the dative alternation in different variants of English, namely British, Australian and American English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656634607\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656634607","offer_id":39447132340317,"sku":"9783656634607","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/853df156-83af-43e4-a9b7-ee8b2ab1c646.jpg?v=1778131606","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-english-dative-alternation-von-marie-louise-hafner","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}