@article{Sówka_2007, title={NON-UNIFORM APPROACH TOWARDS DATIVIZABLE VERBS}, url={https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/an/article/view/1338}, abstractNote={<p>Dative Altemation has given rise to a lot of controversy in the linguistic studies, especially in<br>the reference to the inherent meaning of give verbs and its relation to the arguments projection.<br>The aim of this paper is to provide support to Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2005) thesis that<br>challenges a recently prevailing polysemy approach, which characterizes dativizable verbs of<br>giving as having two inherent meanings. To provide data and support to Levin and Rappaport<br>Hovav (2005) proposal concerning monosemy of dativizable give verbs, first, I point out drawbacks<br>in the polysemy approach towards verbs o f giving, future having, and verbs o f communicated<br>message in English. This analysis takes issue with the assumptions of the polysemy approach<br>and supports the monosemy approach to give verbs in English. In order to give more support to<br>this observation, later, I carefully scrutinize the equivalents of English verbs o f giving, future<br>having and verbs o f communicated message in German and Polish. Both these languages show the<br>equivalent of the Dative Alternation.<br>The data provided from other languages demonstrates that verbs o f giving and their subtypes<br>inherently involve only possession in their root meanings and exclude caused movement.</p>}, number={IX}, journal={Acta Neophilologica}, author={Sówka, Katarzyna}, year={2007}, month={grudz.}, pages={65–71} }