Variation in Datives

Variation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives. The papers in this volume examine different aspects of internal variation in dative marking such as agreement and case alternations distribution of adpositional structures and dative case-marking the different structural positions of dative arguments and their semantic contribution and patterns of syncretism in the clitic and/or agreement system. Interest in these topics has grown significantly in the past 20 years. Variation in Datives makes a significant contribution to our understanding of language variation as it adds the micro-comparative perspective to the general discussion and includes 10 new articles on a wide range of European languages including Greek Basque Icelandic and Serbo-Croatian.Variation in Datives will appeal to scholars and advanced students of syntax linguistic variation and especially syntactic micro-variation.