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The Dative: Descriptive Studies (Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, Vol 2) by William Van Belle
The Dative: Theoretical and Contrastive Studies (Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages , Vol 2, No 3) by Willy Van Langendonck
A Geography of Case Semantics: The Czech Dative and the Russian Instrumental (Cognitive Linguistics Research, No 4) by Laura A. Janda
Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 9) by Ewa Dabrowska
The Dative: Theoretical and Contrastive Studies (Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages) by Willy Van Langendonck
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The dative case is a grammatical case for nouns and/or pronouns. The dative marks, generally, the indirect object of a verb; other uses include possession, as in Vulgar Latin and, to a lesser extent, Classical Latin.
The dative was common among early Indo-European languages and has survived to the present in the Slavic branch, the Finno-Ugric branch, and the Germanic branch.
Languages that use or used the dative case include:
While the dative case is no longer a part of the English grammar, it survives in a few set expressions. One good example is the word methinks, with the meaning "it seems to me". It survives in this fixed form from the days of Old English (having undergone, however, phonetical changes with the rest of the language), in which it was constructed as me (the dative case of the personal pronoun) + thinks ("to seem", a verb closely related to the verb "to think", but distinct from it in Old English; later it merged with "to think" and lost this meaning).
Though in English, the indirect object of an action is sometimes expressed with a prepositional phrase of 'to' or 'for', an accusative pronoun can be placed directly after the main verb and used in a dative manner, provided that the verb has a direct object as well; for example, "He gave me that" or "He built me a snowman". In both examples, the accusative "me" functions as a dative. This collapse of the accusative and dative pronouns (which were distinct in Old English) into the same pronoun-set has led grammarians to discard the accusative/dative distinction in modern English grammar and refer to this combined form as the 'objective' (See also Declension in English).
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