The Dative Dispositional Construction in Russian

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ID3131272
AuthorsJ Kim (0000-0001-6997-6173, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author), Dganit Jenia Kim (The Computational Lexicology and Terminology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Tal Siloni (0000-0002-1709-8468, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume51
Issue2
Pages237-279
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00341
OpenAlexW2921891580
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited32

The article sheds new light on the so-called dative dispositional construction in Russian. We revise the characterization of the classes of verbs able to feed the construction, showing that its input is best defined in terms of the Theta System (Reinhart's ( 2002 , 2016 ) approach to thematic relations). To resolve controversies in the literature regarding the licensing conditions of the construction and its possible interpretations, we ran two surveys whose design and findings we report. We then discuss the properties of the construction comparatively, define the operation deriving it, and provide evidence that the operation is lexical. This has consequences regarding the nature of the lexical component

Component (thermodynamics) · Dative case · Lexical item · Linguistics · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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