1. Bodily Injuries and Dative Experiencers in Old Frisian
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Peter Alexander Kerkhof and Laura Bruno
- Subjects
body part syntax ,History ,involvement hierarchy ,Grammar ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Dative case ,Perspective (graphical) ,Oblique case ,General Medicine ,Syntax ,Languages and Literatures ,Linguistics ,Middle Low German ,Subject (grammar) ,Middle Dutch ,dative experiencers ,Old Frisian ,media_common - Abstract
This article offers a descriptive account of body part constructions in Old East Frisian texts and analyzes the occurrence of dative experiencers in such clauses. This includes a comparison between Old Frisian body part grammar and its Middle Dutch counterpart, revisiting issues such as the antiquity of dative external possessors and oblique subject constructions in West Germanic. In presenting the data from a theory-neutral perspective, this investigation contributes to the study of body part grammar in Medieval Germanic in particular and to the growing body of literature on Old Frisian syntax in general.
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- 2020
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