Dative Alternation. Investigating Grammatical Variation

Project Report from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, language: English, abstract: The phenomenon under investigation was the dative alternation, i.e. the factors influencing the choice between the NP/noun phrase dative ("e;I give him the book"e;) and the PP/prepositional phrase dative ("e;I give the book to him"e;...