Open AccessDitransitive structures: the to-Dative
Author(s) -
Tania Zamfir
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series iv, philology and cultural studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-7698
pISSN - 2066-768X
DOI - 10.31926/but.pcs.2020.62.13.3.11
Subject(s) - dative case , linguistics , alternation (linguistics) , computer science , philosophy
"Starting with Chomsky (1965) the English Dative alternation has received a considerableamount of attention given the two accounts which have emerged: a non-derivationalaccount (Kayne 1984, Pesetsky 1995, Harley 2002, Bruening 2010, 2018, Hallman 2015 i.a.)and a derivational account (Larson 1988, Larson and Harada 2006, Ormazabal and Romero2010, MacDonald 2015 i.a.). Starting from this discussion, I show that the dative alternationhas a morpho-syntactic dimension which can be illustrated at the level of idiomaticexpressions. Because idioms are considered fixed structures, the paper aims at investigating whether to-dative idioms can occur in both ditransitive syntactic frames. The investigation will show that idioms are fully compositional structures in line with Larson (2017) and they can occur in alternating ditransitive frames, contrary to what has been previously discussed."