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title = "Dative alternations in less-researched syntactic patterns of standard {C}roatian",
author = "Birti{\'c}, Matea Andrea and
Runjai{\'c}, Sini{\v{s}}a and
Sviben, Robert",
editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva and
Kahane, Sylvain",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)",
month = aug,
year = "2025",
address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.10/",
pages = "103--107",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-290-9",
abstract = "Dative alternation in double object constructions is a frequently researched syntactic phenomenon, having been investigated across world languages. Consequently, even relatively smaller and under-resourced languages like Croatian have seen influential studies on the topic. Recent syntactic and semantic analyses of verbs in standard Croatian have identified less-explored instances of dative alternation. This contribution aims to describe the alternation between dative case and prepositional phrase for the non-agentive and intransitive uses of the verb slu{\v{z}}iti ({`}to serve'), as well as the dative alternation for the agentive and transitive uses of the verb izbje{\'c}i ({`}to avoid')."
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%T Dative alternations in less-researched syntactic patterns of standard Croatian
%A Birtić, Matea Andrea
%A Runjaić, Siniša
%A Sviben, Robert
%Y Hajičová, Eva
%Y Kahane, Sylvain
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)
%D 2025
%8 August
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%C Ljubljana, Slovenia
%@ 979-8-89176-290-9
%F birtic-etal-2025-dative
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%P 103-107
Markdown (Informal)
[Dative alternations in less-researched syntactic patterns of standard Croatian](https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.10/) (Birtić et al., DepLing-SyntaxFest 2025)
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