In this paper, we provide evidence based on case alternations in passives in favor of the
view that dative is a mixed case. Dative, but also other cases, has the property of being …

This chapter reviews a number of issues concerning Scandinavian object shift and object
scrambling of the type found in the Germanic OV-languages. It differs from earlier reviews in …

This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-
like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The …

This article presents and discusses evidence that genitive and dative objects regularly
become nominative in Ancient Greek passives of monotransitives and ditransitives. This is a …

The grammatical literature on Dutch generally distinguishes two “passive” alternatives to the
active double object construction, one of which, the socalled krijgen-passive is a fairly recent …

This thesis presents a study of external possession in varieties of Dutch. External
possessors appear outside of the possessum phrase syntactically, whereas semantically …

Before she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards develo** the
Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the thematic relations of verbs are …

This paper focuses on “old” bidialectal and “new” bilingual language contact settings in the
Netherlands combining insights from theoretical linguistics and sociolinguistics. It highlights …

This article adopts the traditional claim in Dutch linguistics that periphrastic perfect-tense
constructions gradually developed out of copular-like constructions with have and be. It …

The paper critically reviews a recent volume on Diachronic Construction Grammar. It is
argued that a more convincing case for the diachronic construction grammar approach could …