Theoretical and contrastive studies

1. List of abbreviations 2. introduction 3. Recipients and 'give' constructions (by Newman, John) 4. The possessive dative in romance and Germanic languages (by Lamiroy, Beatrice) 5. The case of the causee. On the competition between dative and accusative in Dutch laten and German lassen constructions (by Draye, Luk) 6. Meanings of the dative case in Old English (by Pasicki, Adam) 7. The dative as participant role versus the Indirect Object: on the need to distinguish two layers of organization (by Davidse, Kristin) 8. The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch (by Geeraerts, Dirk) 9. The dative in Latin and the indirect object in Dutch (by Van Langendonck, Willy) 10. From form to interpretation: building up the 'dative'-roles (by Melis, Ludo) 11. Subject index