What is it about?
The article investigates the various functions that dative markers encode in Iranian languages within a framework of semantic maps. Based on evidence from Iranian languages, it adds some new connections to the already existing map of dative functions, proposed by Haspelmath (2003).
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Why is it important?
It gives a typology of dative functions across Iranian languages.
Perspectives
This article, we hope, draws more attention on Iranian languages.
Masoud Mohammadirad
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Functions of the dative: An Iranian perspective, Language Typology and Universals, September 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2018-0021.
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