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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break:after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Caucasian languages are a case in point. Cf. for example Akhvakh (Nakh-Daghestanian, Andic):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>di-ƛa čaka b-it’aχ-ari<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>1SG-DAT very N-succeed-PFV<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>‘I was very lucky’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>(possible reference: Creissels, Denis. 2017. Transitivity and valency in Northern Akhvakh. </span><i><span lang=EN-US>Lingvisticæ Investigationes </span></i><span lang=EN-US>40:1, 82–117 – the example above (taken from Magomedova & Abdulaeva’s Akhvakh-Russian dictionary) is not quoted in this paper, but in section 2.3.2, p. 95, there is a list of verbs with the coding frame in question, among which </span><span lang=EN-AU>b-it’aχ-uruƛa</span><span lang=EN-US>)</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Denis Creissels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] <b>De la part de</b> Spike Gildea<br><b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 21 décembre 2018 17:01<br><b>À :</b> Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><b>Objet :</b> [Lingtyp] Verbs of success with dative subject<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I forward a query from my colleague, Jóhanna Barðdal, who is looking for examples of predicates of "success” with non canonical subject marking, in particular those that take a dative subject. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We are working on Indo-European verbs/predicates with the meanings 'succeed', 'be successful', 'make progress', 'turn out well', 'go well'. The last one in the sense "he is doing well in his dance class" or even "he is doing well in life”. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you in advance for indications of other places in the world where we might find such predicates taking a dative subject!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>