dativeother
Dativeother is a term used in linguistic theory to describe a hypothetical pattern in which a dative marking interacts with a semantic element labeled “other” to indicate a secondary or additional recipient or beneficiary in ditransitive clauses. The concept combines the functional idea of the dative with a focus on an extra recipient, and it is primarily a tool for theoretical comparison rather than a widely attested grammatical category in natural languages.
In potential realizations, dativeother may appear as a suffix, clitic, or separate particle that attaches to
Typologically, dativeother is discussed in the context of ditransitives and recipient encoding. The construct is usually
Example (fictional language L):
Without dativeother: I gave the book to Sam.
With dativeother: I gave the book to Sam-DAT-OTHER. This signals that Sam is a recipient foregrounded in
The concept remains largely theoretical and is used to explore cross-linguistic possibilities in how recipient roles