Some remarks on Hungarian ethical datives

Rákosi, G.: Some remarks on Hungarian ethical datives.
In: When grammar minds language and literature : Festchrift for Prof. Béla Korponay on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Ed.: by Andor József, Hollósy Béla, Laczkó Tibor és Pelyvás Péter, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 413-422, 2008.

DEA

cím:

szerzők:

Rákosi György

levelező szerző:

Rákosi György

kiadás éve:

2008

típus:

könyvrészlet

műfaj:

könyvfejezet

nyelv:

angol

MAB:

bölcsészettudományok, nyelvtudományok

tárgyszavak:

Hungarian ethical datives

absztrakt:

My prime objective in this paper is to investigate how Hungarian ethical datives compare with other, evidently non-argumental datives in the language, and how they relate to ethical datives in other languages. I show that ethical datives indeed have curious grammatical properties, which I interpret as a reflex of their special, essentially pragmatic function. Not purporting to present a comprehensive analysis, the paper is only intended to be a collection of structured remarks that all point in the same direction: ethical datives cannot be treated on a par with regular adjunct datives.