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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if it could be seen as an extension of the so-called “ethical dative” or “dative of interest”, which might be thought of as a sort of catch-all use of the dative (generally with people only, hence my calling it an “extension”).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Brian</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brian D. Joseph</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Ohio State University</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">histling-l <histling-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Joe Salmons <jsalmons@wisc.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:29 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"histling-l@mailman.yale.edu" <histling-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Histling-l] Historical syntax question</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">Folks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">I’m writing on behalf of Christian Ruvalcaba at UC Santa Cruz, who’s not on this list. We’ve been corresponding about a paper he’s finishing up and he
has a question about English historical syntax that somebody MUST know something about. He’s looking at part-whole datives and integral construals, dealing with stuff like this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121"> a. There are several branches to the tree.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121"> b. There is a smell to water.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121"> c. There was a kindness to his eyes.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121"> d. The tree has several branches to it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121"> e. The pieces to the puzzle.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121"> f. ?Those cups are not to the same set.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">While his paper is synchronic, he’s wondering basically if anybody had general ideas about the development of locative/dative marking and possession
in Germanic or Indo-European languages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">You can respond to him directly --<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:chruvalc@ucsc.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:chruvalc@ucsc.edu"><span style="color:#0078D7">chruvalc@ucsc.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">Thanks!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">Joe</span></p>
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