The Dative Of Agency: A Chapter Of Indo-European Case-Syntax (1913) - Softcover

Green, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1436818664 ISBN 13: 9781436818667

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

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The Dative of Agency is a book written by Alexander Green, first published in 1913. The book explores the use of the dative case in Indo-European languages, specifically in relation to the concept of agency. The dative case is a grammatical case used to indicate the indirect object of a verb, and in some languages, it can also be used to indicate the agent of an action. The book examines the historical development of the dative case in various Indo-European languages, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Old English. It also compares the use of the dative case in these languages with other cases that can indicate agency, such as the instrumental case. The book is aimed at scholars of linguistics and Indo-European studies and provides a detailed analysis of the dative case in Indo-European languages.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Of the various functional types of theD ative in the several I ndoE uropean languages no single one, whether original or acquired, has been given so little consideration or Jias been dismissed with so summary a treatment as that ordinaril)rdesignated as theD ative of A gency. Indifferently bandied about, but more commonly assigned to the original I ndo-E uropean Dative, as one of its natural developments, it has in grammatical works of all kinds come to assume the character of a colorless subspecies, to all intents and purposes long since tracked to its lair, duly identified and ticketed, with never a suspicion as to its complete make-up attaching to it. Delbriick, so far as I know, was the first to indicate along the entire line of I ndo-E uropean case-studies an ultimate Instrumental origin forD atives of such function; but in the more recent of his works he has contented himself with declaring the impossibility of a definite division between the two cases, as far as the inherited status of any given language is concerned, and is in fact tacitly in favor of relegating the whole usage to its old place under theD ative of Personal I nterest. A lately published book giving a passing notice to the subject even seeks to derive from the latter viewpoint additional support for its quite plausible theory of the development of certain Possessive Genitives from the use of Pronominal Datives ;and tho manifestly a representation of a condition consequent upon the one here under discussion, it nevertheless is a significant index of the current conception of theD ative of A gency. It has appeared to me that the full value of the construction could more easily be ascertained if it were not subsumed, as merely one of the many constituents, under the general division of theD ative of Personal I nterest, nor therefore determined, for 1A blaiiv localis instrumentalis, Berlin
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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1436818664
• ISBN 13: 9781436818667
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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