1991•The Slavic and East European JournalRequires access
A Parametric Approach to Dative Subjects and the Second Dative in Slavic
Gerald R. Greenberg, Steven Franks
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Abstract
There are, however, sentences in Russian that do not contain a canonical nominative subject NP. Instead, they contain a dative NP that appears to bear the same semantic roles as do canonical subjects, but is not in an agreement relation with the predicate. In such sentences, the predicate may be expressed by a so-called impersonal or category-of-state predicate, as in (3) and (4), or by an infinitive, as in (5) and (6).