Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations ix
4. introduction xi
5. Recipients and ‘give’ constructions 1
6. The possessive dative in romance and Germanic languages 29
7. The case of the causee. On the competition between dative and accusative in Dutch laten and German lassen constructions 75
8. Meanings of the dative case in Old English 113
9. The dative as participant role versus the Indirect Object 143
10. The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch 185
11. The dative in Latin and the indirect object in Dutch 211
12. From form to interpretation 261
13. Subject index 293