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Dative
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DATIVE. That which may be given or disposed of at will and pleasure. It sometimes means that which is not cast upon the party by the law, or by a testator, but which is given by the magistrate; in this sense it is that tutorship is dative, when the tutor is appointed by the magistrate. Lec. Elem. Sec. 239; Civ. Code of L. art. 288, 1671.



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Finally she aims to provide a unified and comprehensive account for the status of ni-marked datives, arguing that a syntactic account should be supplemented with an understanding that dative subjects are the result of semantic and pragmatic change of ni-marked datives from prepositional to subjective usages.
When no misunderstanding would arise in the case of inflected Latin and Old English datives, we would expect one-to-one renderings; but, because Old English endings in dative and accusative singular are no longer fully transparent Old English forms are sometimes strengthened by a preposition, e.
 
 
 
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